Re: [Rd] Poor documentation for "adj" and text()

2018-09-19 Thread frederik
Thanks Martin. I wouldn't necessarily fault Ulrich for his subject line - unless you want to propose a better one... I might fault him for not following up and checking out the patch that I submitted at his prompting. I noticed that you committed my patch last Friday, with some welcome improvemen

Re: [Rd] Poor documentation for "adj" and text()

2018-09-14 Thread Martin Maechler
> > on Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:33:41 -0700 writes: > Hello Core Team, I sent this patch over a year ago. It > looks like it was sent in response to another user's > complaint which echoed some of my own observations about > problems in the documentation for 'text'. Did a

Re: [Rd] Poor documentation for "adj" and text()

2018-09-13 Thread frederik
Hello Core Team, I sent this patch over a year ago. It looks like it was sent in response to another user's complaint which echoed some of my own observations about problems in the documentation for 'text'. Did anyone have a chance to look it over? I'd like to get it out of my queue. Thanks, Fre

Re: [Rd] Poor documentation for "adj" and text()

2017-04-11 Thread frederik
Thanks Ulrich for sharing your experience. I'm attaching a patch which tries to address the issues you raised. I agree with you in principle, but I think it makes sense to leave some details under "Details". However, the descriptions in "Arguments" should give enough information that a user can g

[Rd] Poor documentation for "adj" and text()

2017-04-11 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! (I'd like to be able to access your bugzilla, BTW) The documentation for parameter "adj" of text() in R 3.3.3 is hard to understand (unless you know what it does already): "adj one or two values in [0, 1] which specify the x (and optionally y) adjustment of the labels. On most devices valu