From Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>  Tue Oct 28 17:37:35 1997
From: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> (Martin Maechler)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 18:37:35 +0100
Subject: R-alpha: Bug[?] in axis(.) -- using format(.) for labels can give nonsense
Message-ID: <199710281737.SAA04464@sophie.ethz.ch>

To see what I mean,
try

 x11()
 par(mfrow=c(2,1))
 x <- 1:100
 plot(x, sin(pi*x/100))
 options(digits= 20)
 plot(x, sin(pi*x/100))

The problem really is in  axis(.) which uses  format(.) for the axis
labels.
I think  the result of axis(.) should NOT be influenced by

	options()$digits.

Should I change it?

--
Martin
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R-alpha: Bug[?] in axis(.) -- using format(.) for labels can give nonsense
Martin Maechler