From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Mon Sep 19 16:31:56 2005
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:31:56 -0400
Subject: [Rd] automatically adding smooth to
	plot:	options("plot.add.smooth")
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On 9/19/2005 10:01 AM, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> Martin Maechler wrote:
> 
>> I've changed the subject in the hope some more people would
>> voice an opinion...
> 
> ...
> 
>> Now I even propose to have
>>       
>> 	options(add.smooth = TRUE)
>> 
>> as a new default.....
>> 
>> Do I get a reaction now?
>> Martin
> 
> I think you may break a lot of things if you make this the default for 
> plot. Plot gets used by other things (like matplot) where this default 
> may not make much sense. (But I may have missed too much of the earlier 
> discussion under some other subject.)

This was going to affect only plot.lm, as far as I know.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] automatically adding smooth to plot: options("plot.add.smooth")
Duncan Murdoch