Great, thanks for the update! Yousri
On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 10:54 PM Fox, John <j...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > Dear Yousri, > > The problem with scatterplot() is now fixed in the development version > 3.0-8 of the car package on R-Forge, which eventually will be submitted to > CRAN. Until then, you can install the package via install.packages("car", > repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") > > Thanks again for the bug report, > John > > > On May 3, 2020, at 4:37 AM, Yousri Fanous <yousri.fan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Thank you Professor John for your answer. > > > > As you rightly said I am not using the ch in my example report as it has > no bearing to the issue. > > However it is the ch that led me to find the issue. > > I was trying to label each point with its corresponding aa$ch value. > > I used this code: > > > > scatterplot(aa$x,aa$y,smooth = FALSE, grid = FALSE, frame = > FALSE,regLine=F) > > text(aa$x,aa$y, labels=aa$ch,font=1 ,cex=.9,pos=3) > > > > The annotation was correct for 4 points but not for the (2,5) point. > > I figured it is because it is close to the margin of the plot hence as a > quick solution I modified xlim to shift the point away from the margin. > > This worked for the annotation but eventually led to the issue I > described. > > > > Thank you so much for your time > > > > Yousri Fanous > > > > Software Developer > > IBM CANADA > > > > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 11:47 PM Fox, John <j...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > > > > Dear Yousri, > > > > Yes, this is clearly a bug, and almost surely a long-standing one. We'll > fix it in the next release of the car package. > > > > BTW, stringsAsFactors defaults to FALSE in R 4.0.0 (and you don't use > the ch variable in the example). Also, although it has no bearing on the > bug, I'd generally prefer > > > > scatterplot(y ~ x, data=aa, smooth=FALSE, grid=FALSE, > > frame=FALSE, regLine=FALSE, xlim=c(0, 8)) > > > > Thank you for the bug report, > > John > > > > ----------------------------- > > John Fox, Professor Emeritus > > McMaster University > > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > > Web: http::/socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > > > > On May 2, 2020, at 7:30 PM, Yousri Fanous <yousri.fan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > library (car) > > > > > > aa <- data.frame(x=c(2, 5, 6, 7, 8), > > > + y=c(5, 10, 9, 12, 11), > > > + ch=c("N", "Q", "R", "S", "T"), > > > + stringsAsFactors=FALSE) > > > > > > scatterplot(aa$x,aa$y,smooth = FALSE, grid = FALSE, frame = > FALSE,regLine=F) > > > > > > Both x and y boxplots are correct > > > and in particular the median of the x box is at 6 which is confirmed > > > > > >> median(aa$x) > > > [1] 6 > > > > > > Now I do only one addition to the scatterplot: I add xlim > > >> scatterplot(aa$x,aa$y,smooth = FALSE, grid = FALSE, frame = > > > FALSE,regLine=F,xlim=c(0,8)) > > > > > > This causes the boxplot on x-axis to be in error: > > > 1) the lower whisker starts now from zero > > > 2) the median is between 4 and 6 and no longer at 6 as before > > > > > >> sessionInfo() > > > R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) > > > [1] car_3.0-7 > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.