Thank you, Berwin. You are definitely right, and I have committed a fix to R-patched and R-devel.
Maybe help(par) has been just too long a document to be really read .. ;-) Martin >>>>> "BeT" == Berwin A Turlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:51:51 +0800 writes: BeT> Dear all, BeT> the second paragraph on the value returned by par() on the help page BeT> of par says: BeT> When just one parameter is queried, the value is a character BeT> string. When two or more parameters are queried, the result is a BeT> list of character strings, with the list names giving the BeT> parameters. BeT> But this does not seem to be correct: >> par("lty", "ask", "lwd", "oma") BeT> $lty BeT> [1] "solid" BeT> $ask BeT> [1] FALSE BeT> $lwd BeT> [1] 1 BeT> $oma BeT> [1] 0 0 0 0 BeT> Only the first one is a character string, the other ones are a BeT> logical, a number and a vector of numbers, respectively. Should it BeT> rather be something like (also in view of the next sentence): BeT> When just one parameter is queried, the value of that parameter BeT> is returned as a vector. When two or more parameters are BeT> queried, their values are returned in a list, with the list names BeT> giving the parameters. BeT> Cheers, BeT> Berwin BeT> ______________________________________________ BeT> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list BeT> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel