From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Jul  2 13:11:19 2007
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:11:19 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] termplot with uniform y-limits
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On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Bill.Venables at csiro.au wrote:

> Precisely.  Thanks Brian.
>
> I did do something like this but not nearly so elegantly.
>
> I suggest this become the standard version in the next release.  I can't

Yes, that was the intention (to go into R-devel).
(It was also my intention to attach as plain text, but my Windows mailer 
seems to have defeated that.)

> see that it can break any existing code.  It's a pity now we can't make
> ylim = "common" the default.

I suspect we could if I allow a way to get the previous behaviour 
(ylim="free", I think).

Brian

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> Bill V.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, 2 July 2007 7:55 PM
> To: Venables, Bill (CMIS, Cleveland)
> Cc: r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] termplot with uniform y-limits
>
> Is the attached the sort of thing you are looking for?
> It allows ylim to be specified, including as "common".
>
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Bill.Venables at csiro.au wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have, or has anyone ever considered making, a version of
>> 'termplot' that allows the user to specify that all plots should have
>> the same y-limits?
>>
>> This seems a natural thing to ask for, as the plots share a y-scale.
> If
>> you don't have the same y-axes you can easily misread the comparative
>> contributions of the different components.
>>
>> Notes: the current version of termplot does not allow the user to
>> specify ylim.  I checked.
>>
>> 	  the plot tools that come with mgcv do this by default.  Thanks
>> Simon.
>>
>>
>> Bill Venables
>> CSIRO Laboratories
>> PO Box 120, Cleveland, 4163
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[Rd] termplot with uniform y-limits
Prof Brian Ripley