From bolker at ufl.edu  Tue Jun  2 14:44:03 2009
From: bolker at ufl.edu (Ben Bolker)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 05:44:03 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] The default position of plot title
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ronggui-2 wrote:
> 
> Dear R-developers,
> 
> It seems to me that the position of title is usually at the bottom of
> a plot in sociological and political science books and articles. I
> wonder if the same convention applies in other disciplines. If yes, is
> it reasonable to change the default position of main title of plot
> function?
> 
> 

  I'm not an R developer, but:

 * in my field (biology/ecology), it's at the top.
 * it doesn't seem that hard to put the titles where you want with mtext()
 * changing this would have major backward-compatibility/surprise issues
for all the other users who expect the title to be at the top ...

  Ben Bolker

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[Rd] The default position of plot title
Ben Bolker