Dear Author and Maintainer of Hmisc contributed package, Dear R developers, i noticed a problem with histbackback routine when i installed the last version of R (2.4.1) (With my previous version, 2.3.1, there was no such a problem) If, e.g., you simply edit the command > histbackback(rnorm(20), rnorm(30)) a warning message is printed on the console. Warning messages: 1: argument 'probability' is not made use of in: hist.default(x, breaks = brks, plot = FALSE, probability = probability) 2: argument 'probability' is not made use of in: hist.default(y, breaks = brks, plot = FALSE, probability = probability) To fix this problem I simply REPLACE lines 26-27 of histbackback() code: ll <- hist(x, breaks = brks, plot = FALSE,probability=probability) rr <- hist(y, breaks = brks, plot = FALSE,probability=probability) with: ll <- hist(x, breaks = brks, plot = FALSE) rr <- hist(y, breaks = brks, plot = FALSE) The problem -- i guess -- is generated by the call to hist() which judges "incompatible" setting plot = FALSE and contemporarily specifying the probability argument. In fact, the description of plot argument in hist() function is as follows: plot logical. If TRUE (default), a histogram is plotted, otherwise a list of breaks and counts is returned. In the latter case, a warning is used if (typically graphical) arguments are specified that only apply to the plot = TRUE case.
Hence, another correction could be to REMOVE probability argument from the list of "(typically graphical)" arguments that only apply to the plot = TRUE case. Then, it becomes a basic matter of R package. Hope to be of some help and of course I would be very grateful ro receive any comment about. Sincerely, Matilde Trevisani ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
