[R] unexpected behavior in plot

2004-03-30 Thread Arditi, Aries

I'm having difficulty getting plot to work with type="n", when either the x or y 
variables is a factor.

For example,

x <- 1:10
y <- 1:10

plot(x, as.factor(y), type="n")
plot(as.factor(x),y, type="n")
plot(y ~ as.factor(x), type="n")

produce plots with data plotted, whereas

plot(x,y, type="n") 
plot(y ~ x, type = "n")

produce the expected dataless plots

I am running R1.8.1 on Windows (xp), with the windows graphics device.

I have a friend who has tried this on a Mac (OS 10.3.3. with quartz() and x11() 
devices) and gets erratic behavior, i.e. sometimes plots works as expected, and 
sometimes not.

Does anyone have any clues on this?

Thanks in advance,


Aries Arditi, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow in Vision Science
Arlene R. Gordon Research Institute
Lighthouse International
111 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022

Tel: +1 212 821 9500 (direct)
Fax: +1 212 751 9667
http://www.lighthouse.org/research_staff_arditi.htm

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Re: [R] unexpected behavior in plot

2004-03-30 Thread Uwe Ligges
Arditi, Aries wrote:
I'm having difficulty getting plot to work with type="n", when either the x or y variables is a factor.

For example,

x <- 1:10
y <- 1:10
plot(x, as.factor(y), type="n")
plot(as.factor(x),y, type="n")
plot(y ~ as.factor(x), type="n")
produce plots with data plotted, whereas

plot(x,y, type="n") 
plot(y ~ x, type = "n")

produce the expected dataless plots

I am running R1.8.1 on Windows (xp), with the windows graphics device.

I have a friend who has tried this on a Mac (OS 10.3.3. with quartz() and x11() devices) and gets erratic behavior, i.e. sometimes plots works as expected, and sometimes not.

Does anyone have any clues on this?


Yes: If x is a factor, boxplot() is called by plot.factor(), the 
corresponding method for the generic plot().
boxplot() does not care about type="n".

Uwe Ligges



Thanks in advance,

Aries Arditi, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow in Vision Science
Arlene R. Gordon Research Institute
Lighthouse International
111 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Tel: +1 212 821 9500 (direct)
Fax: +1 212 751 9667
http://www.lighthouse.org/research_staff_arditi.htm
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