Hello, I am quite new to R and have high expectations for my future with it.
R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25) -- "Frisbee Sailing" Copyright (C) 2013 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) I have stepped back to an earlier tutorial and found an odd inconsistency with one of the examples: plot(table(rpois(100, 5)), type = "h", col = "red", lwd = 10, main = "rpois(100, lambda = 5)") I read the local documentation on the plot command and it's arguments. >From that, I learned that 'main' defines the title from a text string. I decide to modify some values to see how the resulting behavior changes. What I didn't expect was that modifying the text string caused the chart to change greatly. plot(table(rpois(100, 5)), type = "h", col = "red", lwd = 10, main = "rpois(100, lambda = 4)") With the previous line, the columns change values. plot(table(rpois(100, 5)), type = "h", col = "red", lwd = 10, main = "hello") This line even adds a 12th column. I return to plot the original and the output has changed again. Here are some screenshots http://timothylegg.com/R/lambda5_.png http://timothylegg.com/R/lambda5.png http://timothylegg.com/R/lambda4.png http://timothylegg.com/R/hello.png What am I doing wrong to get inconsistent results like this? I'm very new to R and really hoping that this is a misunderstanding on my part. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.