I've just noticed what seems to me to be somewhat peculiar behaviour in respect of how different plotting functions treat a specification "col=NA".
Consider: plot(1:10) text(4,6,labels="o",col=NA) points(6,4,col=NA) The symbol produced by the call to text() shows up (is black). The symbol produced by the call to points() does not appear. Of course if one simply does points(6,4) then the symbol appears. This seems to me to be a mild inconsistency. It is No Big Deal, and in fact doesn't matter at all (who in their right mind would specify col=NA?). I only noticed this phenomenon because of an error I had made in some code. I'm just curious as to what is going on. Is there a reason for the difference in behaviour between text() and points()? (And plot(); plot(1:10,col=NA) produces no points in the plot.) Note that the help for par() says: > Some functions such as lines and text accept a vector of values which > are recycled and may be interpreted slightly differently. So I guess differences in behaviour are hinted at. I'm still curious! Any thoughts from anyone? cheers, Rolf Turner -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
