From Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk  Fri Feb  6 01:21:48 2009
From: Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk ( (Ted Harding))
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:21:48 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] "open-ended" plot limits?
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Thanks, everyone, for all the responses!
Ted.

On 05-Feb-09 20:48:33, Ted Harding wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> Maybe I've missed it already being available somehow,
> but if the following isn't available I'd like to suggest it.
> 
> If you're happy to let plot() choose its own limits,
> then of course plot(x,y) will do it.
> 
> If you know what limits you want, then
>   plot(x,y,xlim=c(x0,x1),ylim(y0,y1)
> will do it.
> 
> But sometimes one would like to
> a) make sure that (e.g.) the y-axis has a lower limit (say) 0
> b) let plot() choose the upper limit.
> 
> In that case, something like
> 
>   plot(x,y,ylim=c(0,NA))
> 
> would be a natural way of specifying it. But of course that
> does not work.
> 
> I would like to suggest that this possibility should be available.
> What do people think?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Ted.
> 
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[Rd] "open-ended" plot limits?
 (Ted Harding