Dear Prof. Ripley and all,
Thank you very much for the pointers and the always insightful
comments. I'd like to add a few further comments below for the sake of
discussion,
On 26 May 2009, at 08:35, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
I don't know where you get your claims from. R graphics is hand
I don't know where you get your claims from. R graphics is handled
internally in inches, with a device-specific mapping to pixels/points
etc (which is documented for each device on its help page). This has
to be done carefully, as pixels may not be square.
What the meaning of pch=1:23 is in
Dear all,
Having received no answer in r-help I'm trying r-devel (hoping this is
not a stupid question).
I don't understand the rationale behind the absolute sizes of the point
symbols, and I couldn't find it documented (I got lost in the C code
graphics.c and gave up). The example below u
