Should these be in the (see also section)? Like I said, the pages read fine if you understand the content already. I think some less formal man pages would drastically reduce the traffic on the R mailing list.
Just a hunch, Dan. On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Tony Plate wrote: >Look at the help page for "par" for explanations of "cex" and "lty". > >The use of 'mp' is as a variable, as in > > > mp <- barplot(....) > >The next paragraph refers to this variable. > >-- Tony Plate > >At Monday 05:12 PM 11/1/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Full_Name: Dan B >>Version: R 2.0.0 (2004-10-04). >>OS: Fedora 2 >>Submission from: (NULL) (80.6.127.185) >> >> >>The man page for barplot (?barplot) is confusing... >> >><quote> >>cex.axis: expansion factor for numeric axis labels. >>cex.names: expansion factor for axis names (bar labels). >></quote> >> >>What is an 'expansion factor', and what does it do in this context? >> >> >><quote> >>axis.lty: the graphics parameter 'lty' applied to the axis and tick >> marks of the categorical (default horizontal) axis. Note >> that by default the axis is suppressed. >></quote> >> >>This makes no sense unless you know what it does already (which I don't). So >>this is more of a programmers cleft note in a 'common language' than a >>function >>documentation page. >> >><quote> >>say 'mp', giving the coordinates of _all_ the bar midpoints drawn, >></quote> >> >>Say what? >> >>______________________________________________ >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >>https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
