From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Tue Apr 29 17:14:20 2008
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:14:20 -0400
Subject: [Rd] help text for xlim
In-Reply-To: <481732E0.6050607@bio.ntnu.no>
References: <481732E0.6050607@bio.ntnu.no>
Message-ID: <971536df0804290814k7627c547re139fd790f854a6@mail.gmail.com>

Note that first hit of

RSiteSearch("xlim")

gives an example.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Henrik Parn <henrik.parn at bio.ntnu.no> wrote:
> Dear R-developers,
>
> A student asked me today of how to specify the limits of the x-axis. I knew
> that he should use xlim, but I tried to encourage him to have a try himself
> with the various help functions. I do not judge if he used the correct
> search strategy or right key words, but anyway here is what he tried: he
> looked at ?plot. There xlim is not mentioned. He checked ?par. There you
> find xlim mentioned under the xaxs argument, but not how to specify xlim
> itself. He also failed with help.search("x-axis limits") and
> help.search("x-axis range") and dito apropos(). Neither did Rsitesearch()
> for these terms leed him reasonably straight to the xlim. Finally, he
> checked under See Also: plot.default, and there xlim is mentioned as
> argument, but it does not appear in the examples.
>
> I think it is fair enough that xlim does not appear under ?plot or ?par, but
> would it be possible to add an explicit xlim example under plot.default and
> perhaps to make xlim more likely to be hit by 'xlim-related' searches?
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Henrik
>
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.7.0 (2008-04-22)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>
> WinXP
>
> --
> Henrik P?rn
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[Rd] help text for xlim
Gabor Grothendieck