From john.maindonald at anu.edu.au  Fri Apr 29 09:50:55 2005
From: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au (John Maindonald)
Date: Fri Apr 29 09:51:16 2005
Subject: [Rd] Enhanced version of plot.lm()
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On 29 Apr 2005, at 10:08 AM, John Fox wrote:

> Dear John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Maindonald [mailto:john.maindonald@anu.edu.au]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:47 PM
>> To: John Fox
>> Cc: 'Werner Stahel'; 'Peter Dalgaard';
>> <r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch>; 'David Firth'; 'Martin Maechler'
>> Subject: Re: [Rd] Enhanced version of plot.lm()
>>
>> NB also the mention of a possible addition to stats: vif()
>>
>> Dear John -
>> I think users can cope with six plots offered by one
>> function, with four of them given by default, and the two
>> remaining plots alternative ways of presenting the
>> information in the final default plot.  The idea of plot.lm()
>> was to provide a set of plots that would serve most basic purposes.
>
> I rather like added-variable plots for examining influence and 
> leverage on
> coefficients.

I think that plots of this type are compulsory.  termplot() is
a pretty good start.

John M.
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[Rd] Enhanced version of plot.lm()
John Maindonald