[R] Aspect Ratio

[r.ookie]

I'm asking to get people's interpretation and also whether they've encountered situations where it was useful, helpful, etc.

On Aug 19, 2010, at 2:36 PM, David Winsemius wrote:


On Aug 19, 2010, at 5:28 PM, r.ookie wrote:

> Well, I had to look further into the documentation to see 'If asp is a finite positive value then the window is set up so that one data unit in the x direction is equal in length to asp * one data unit in the y direction'
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> Okay, so in what situations is the 'asp' helpful?

It yet again appears that you are asking us to read the help pages for you.


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> On Aug 19, 2010, at 2:24 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
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> On Aug 19, 2010, at 5:13 PM, r.ookie wrote:
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>> set.seed(1)
>> x <- rnorm(n = 1000, mean = 0, sd = 1)
>> plot(x = x, asp = 2000)
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>> Could someone please explain what the 'asp' parameter is doing?
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> You want us to read the help page to you?
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT