Hi, Thank you Prof Ripley for the response.
On 10/4/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. I was hoping this would be true. > > 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). Thanks PK ______________________________________________ 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.
