From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Nov 25 11:20:58 2002
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:20:58 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Subject: [Rd] Small change to plot.xy
In-Reply-To: <3DE1F478.3FD2BA5B@durham.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0211251118050.2628-100000@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>

The problem is that col= is interpreted in C code for many different R
functions, not kust those going through plot.xy.  The only consistent way I
see to handle this is to change the common C code to handle more cases, if
people really think it is worth complicating R for.

I was going to point out that your previous solution was less general than
what was there at present.

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Jonathan Rougier wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> Thomas Lumley wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Jonathan Rougier wrote:
> >
> > > OK -- so there are two objections to the proposal:
> > >
> > > 1) The factor might be a colour specifier
> > >
> >
> > The function below might help
> > It checks:
> >   - are the levels colour names
> >   - are they numbers
> >   - are they color specifiers like #a0f3d2
> > otherwise it returns the underlying codes with unclass().
>
> Is there a case, given that colours *can* be represented in several
> different ways, for including the two functions "is.color" and
> "as.color" in the base?  I imagine the latter would work like
> "as.numeric", putting NA for elements that cannot be coerced to
> colours.  The function "as.color" might return a specific colour format,
> perhaps #hhhhhh if that is the most general, which would simplify other
> parts of the code.
>
> Jonathan.
>
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[Rd] Small change to plot.xy
Prof Brian D Ripley