From thomas@biostat.washington.edu  Tue Dec 28 16:24:48 1999
From: thomas@biostat.washington.edu (thomas@biostat.washington.edu)
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 17:24:48 +0100 (MET)
Subject: axis for small ranges (PR#390)
Message-ID: <199912281624.RAA09307@pubhealth.ku.dk>

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 Andreas.Weingessel@ci.tuwien.ac.at wrote:

> 
> If you plot a vector of numbers which are all very similar
> (i.e. within the range of some eps), the y-axis is not drawn
> correctly. Either it is completely missing and there is an additional
> horizontal line (1st example below) or it is longer than the plotting
> region (2nd example).
> 
> 
> x <- c(0.12345678912345678,0.12345678912345679,0.12345678912345676)
> plot(x)

This one works for me on Solaris and Linux (though with Linux the label
isn't centered)

> y <- c(0.9999563255363383973418, 0.9999563255363389524533, 0.9999563255363382863194)
> plot(y)

On Solaris (with a somewhat old version of R) this causes an infinite loop
(interruptable by C-c) in pretty0

	-thomas

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>  platform = i686-unknown-linux
>  arch = i686
>  os = linux
>  system = i686, linux
>  status = Patched
>  major = 0
>  minor = 90.0
>  year = 1999
>  month = December
>  day = 9
>  language = R
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axis for small ranges (PR#390)
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