>>>>> "SE" == S Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>     on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:02:20 +0100 writes:

    SE> Boxplot and bxp seem to have changed behaviour a bit of late (R 2.4.1). 
Or maybe I am mis-remembering.
    SE> An annoying feature is that while at=3:6 will work, there is no way of 
overriding the default xlim of 0.5 to n+0.5. That prevents plotting boxes on, 
for example, interval scales - a useful thing to do at times. I really can see 
no good reason for bxp to hard-core the xlim=c(0.5, n+0.5) in the function 
body; it should be a parameter default conditional on horizontal=, not hard 
coded.

    SE> Also, boxplot does not drop empty groups. I'm sure it used to. I know 
it is good to be able to see where a factor level is unpopulated, but its a 
nuisance with fractional factorials and some nested or survey problems when 
many are known to be missing and are of no interest. Irrespective of whether my 
memory is correct, the option would be useful. How hard can it be to add a 
'drop.empty=F' default to boxplot to allow it to switch?

    SE> Obviously, these are things I can fix locally. But who 'owns' boxplot 
so I can provide suggested code to them for later releases? 


Legally speaking, I think that's a hard question the answer of
which may even depend on the country where it is answered.
I would like to say it is owned by the R Foundation.

Suggested improvements of the R "base code" should be made and
discussed on the R-devel mailing list. That's exactly the main
purpose of that list.  
Such propositions typically make it into the code base
if you are convincing and you provide code improvements that
convince at least one member of R core that it's worth his time
to implement, document, *and* test the changes.

Also, as on R-help, it helps to work with small reproducible
(ideally "cut-n-pastable") R code examples.

Regards,
Martin Maechler

    SE> Steve Ellison

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