Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Peter Ehlers wrote:cornell.p.gonsch...@iem.fh-friedberg.de wrote:Full_Name: Cornell Gonschior Version: 2.10.0 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (212.201.28.40) Hi,in the introduction to R, you can find the following sentence in the par()chapter: "Use tck=0.01 and mgp=c(1,-1.5,0) for internal tick marks."I thought that's nice, because I wanted to have tick marks and tick labelsinside and the axis title outside. But:plot(z, las=1, tck=0.01, mgp=c(1,-1.5,0))Warnmeldungen: 1: In plot.window(...) : `mgp[1:3]' are of differing sign 2: In plot.xy(xy, type, ...) : `mgp[1:3]' are of differing sign 3: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : `mgp[1:3]' are of differing sign 4: In axis(side = side, at = at, labels = labels, ...) : `mgp[1:3]' are of differing sign 5: In box(...) : `mgp[1:3]' are of differing sign 6: In title(...) : `mgp[1:3]' are of differing signpar(las=1, tck=0.01, mgp=c(1,-1,0))Warnmeldung: In par(las = 1, tck = 0.01, mgp = c(1, -1, 0)) : `mgp[1:3]' are of differing signWas there a recent change, couldn't find anything useful searching the web.Regards, CornellWell, it's only a warning, making you aware of a possibly unintended par setting. Warnings are good things but if you don't want to see them, they can be suppressed. Certainly not a bug.Hmm, then again, I tend to agree with Cornell that there are a bit too many cases where mgp[1:3]' would sensibly have differing sign, compared to cases where it is a mistake. In addition to internal tick marks and labels, there are also cases where the whole axis is shifted into the plot area. I'd more likely use axis(pos=...) for that, but still.
And, I suppose, if R-Intro mentions it, it would be less confusing if there were mention of the warning. But use of R conditions one to seeing warnings as a good thing. Can't count the number of times I've seen "longer ... is not a multiple of shorter ..." and having it catch a silly user error. -- Peter Ehlers University of Calgary 403.202.3921 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
