I agree with Andrew's viewpoint. These changes would make R easier to use.
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:11:45PM -0400, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > It has never been claimed that it would work, and as far as I can see, > > it doesn't make anything easier: the last line could be replaced by > > > > lines(X, f(X), col="red") > > > > for more clarity from less typing. So why would you want add=TRUE in > > plot.default? > > I don't like lines() because it ONLY allows you to add to plots. I could > send a patch for that too... > > But I also like how plot() is polymorphic. It's nice how you can do some > computation -- a regression, a histogram or whatever, and then just call > plot() > on it, and you have a nice graphical representation of it. But why stop > there... wouldn't it be nice if you could stack them on top of each other? > It's often useful to compare things by putting them on top of each other. > (Are 2 regression lines the same or similar? Are two utility functions the > same? etc.) > > Cheers, > Andrew > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
