On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Prasenjit Kapat wrote: > Hi, > > plot(1,1, cex=2) means that the size of the plotting character (empty > circle in this case) is double the default size. Now my question is: > > What characteristic of the symbol (circle) is double? Is it the area > or the diameter?
Is it not obvious when you try it? Diameter. > What if the symbol is not a circle, what is the generic meaning of > size in that case? cex does linear scaling in each dimension. There is no generic definition of what cex=1 means: it depends on the device, the font (for pch >=32 except ".") or the symbols (pch=1...25). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
