Hi
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Paul Murrell wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>> [Moved to R-devel to ask a policy question.]
>>>
>>> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/16/2007 8:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>> Hi all:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm using 'persp' for 3D graphics.
>>>>>
>>>>> I need the axis's labels smaller than by defect.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see in 'help()', the information about 'par()'.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> par(.....,cex.axis=0.5,cex.lab=0.5)
>>>>> perspc(.................)
>>>>>
>>>>> and the result don't change.
>>>>>
>>>>> The question is: Can I change the size of labels in the perps graph??
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you in advance:
>>>>>
>>>>> /salva
>>>>>
>>>>> 'cex.axis' The magnification to be used for axis annotation
>>>>> relative to the current setting of 'cex'. (Some functions
>>>>> such as 'points' accept a vector of values which are
>>>>> recycled. Other uses will take just the first value if a
>>>>> vector of length greater than one is supplied.)
>>>>>
>>>>> 'cex.lab' The magnification to be used for x and y labels relative
>>>>> to the current setting of 'cex'.
>>>> Those don't appear to be supported by persp, but cex is: e.g.
>>>>
>>>> x <- 1:10
>>>> y <- 1:10
>>>> z <- outer(x,y,function(x,y) sin((x+y)/10))
>>>> persp(x,y,z, cex=0.5)
>>> I've added this to ?persp and ?par, but I wondered if people thought we
>>> should change this to be like 2D plots. Especially Ross I., who I believe
>>> is the author here?
>>
>> I think Ross wrote the original. I've hacked some of it a couple of
>> times. I have no problem with allowing par()s to work with persp(),
>> though not everything makes sense (e.g., par("mar"), or par("mgp") where
>> it gets tricky to get units right or units just do not make sense).
>> There are also 2D-specific ones, like par("xaxt"), though in those cases
>> one option might be to just offer an inline z-analogue in the arguments
>> to persp() (?)
>
> I was not proposing anything so radical, just that 'cex' (and perhaps
> 'font') should perhaps work in the same way as 2D plots.
Yep, sounds cool.
Paul
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