From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Apr 21 12:01:00 2006
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:01:00 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] plot.default 'ylim' error message is wrong (PR#8784)
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, prechelt at inf.fu-berlin.de wrote:

> Full_Name: Lutz Prechelt
> Version: 2.2.1
> OS: WinXP SP2
> Submission from: (NULL) (130.133.8.114)
>
>
> This command
>
>  plot(0, 0, xlim=c(3, 5), ylim=c(0, 10, 17))
>
> should complain about 'ylim' (because it has three elements).
> However, it does in fact (in my german error message at least)
> complain about 'xlim' instead:

On 2.3.0RC it does

> plot(0, 0, xlim=c(3, 5), ylim=c(0, 10, 17))
Fehler in plot.window(xlim, ylim, log, asp, ...) :
         ung?ltiger 'ylim' Wert

so it seems it was already solved.


>  Fehler in plot.window(xlim, ylim, log, asp, ...) :
> 	ung?ltiger 'xlim' Wert
>
> I spent about fifteen minutes debugging my trivial xlim
> argument before I found this. Shows my general trust in R,
> I guess. It is a great system.
> Version 2.2.1  (2005-12-20 r36812)
>
>  Lutz Prechelt


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[Rd] plot.default 'ylim' error message is wrong (PR#8784)
Prof Brian Ripley