On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 22:13 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks, Marc
Happy to help Rich.
> Neither plot.window or plot.default are natural places for me to look for
> argument names. par and plot are, for me, the natural places. I realize
> that asp is not a par argument. Nonetheless, par is still the first place
> to look for arguments that I would use in the ... position of any plot
> function.
> It would be easy to make a case that asp is the same type of argument as mar
> or fin, thus it would make sense for it to be added to par.
Over the years, more from "behavioral modification" than from instinct,
I look at ?plot.default when I forget defacto plot() arguments. Of
course, plot.default() is in the See Also in ?plot.
It is rare for me to look at ?plot.window, given the rarity in which I
call it directly.
> There are NO (that is, zero) live links in the Rgui help system.
Yeah. I enabled options(htmlhelp = TRUE) in my .Rprofile for the times
when I use R from the GNOME console, otherwise I am usually in ESS using
emacs 22 from CVS with the XFT patches.
I am not sure that I ever used the .CHM help when I used to run on
Windows, but presume that there is a hyperlink in that format to
parallel the live link in the HTML file.
> help.search("asp") doesn't find anything related to graphics.
Could be added as a \concept presumably in the .Rd files for
plot.default and plot.window. For example:
\concept{asp aspect ratio}
> ESS is much better for help than Rgui since ESS Rd mode can go to the help
> page for any word that the cursor sits on. ESS for R help doesn't have the
> links themselves.
Indeed.
Regards,
Marc
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