Re: [Rd] help text for xlim

2008-05-01 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 01/05/2008 6:20 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: xlim belongs to plot.window(), which is what plot.default() passes it to. It is documented in both places. It is not necessarily relevant to a general plot() (which might call lattice, for example). I'll add a couple of concept entries to plot.w

Re: [Rd] help text for xlim

2008-05-01 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
xlim belongs to plot.window(), which is what plot.default() passes it to. It is documented in both places. It is not necessarily relevant to a general plot() (which might call lattice, for example). I'd suggest adding an alias or concept to plot.window.Rd. And 'asp' does have an alias and co

Re: [Rd] help text for xlim

2008-04-29 Thread Duncan Murdoch
I think you're right, xlim is harder to discover than it should be. If we added the right "concept" marker to the page, then help.search() would find it. But a lot of things are mentioned on the plot.default page; how many others there are just as hard as xlim to find? I'd rather not fix xli

Re: [Rd] help text for xlim

2008-04-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Note that first hit of RSiteSearch("xlim") gives an example. On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Henrik Parn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear R-developers, > > A student asked me today of how to specify the limits of the x-axis. I knew > that he should use xlim, but I tried to encourage him to ha

[Rd] help text for xlim

2008-04-29 Thread Henrik Parn
Dear R-developers, A student asked me today of how to specify the limits of the x-axis. I knew that he should use xlim, but I tried to encourage him to have a try himself with the various help functions. I do not judge if he used the correct search strategy or right key words, but anyway here