Try help(par).
Christian
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As an absolute beginner, still reading "Modern Applied Statistics with S" and
> exercising with its examples, I'm frequently stopped by what it looks to be R poor
> help system (or is it my gigantic ignorance?). I mean that using help many arguments
> of a command seems to be given for granted like for instance:
> ...............................
> ?lines
> lines(x, ...)
>
> ## Default S3 method:
> lines(x, y = NULL, type = "l", col = par("col"),
> lty = par("lty"), ...)
>
> Arguments:
>
> x, y: coordinate vectors of points to join.
>
> type: character indicating the type of plotting; actually any of
> the 'type's as in 'plot'.
>
> col: color to use. This can be vector of length greater than one,
> but only the first value will be used.
>
> lty: line type to use.
>
> ...: Further graphical parameters (see 'par') may also be supplied
> as arguments, particularly, line type, 'lty' and line width,
> 'lwd'.
> ................................
>
> How could I quickly know during an R-session what values should be "col" set to have
> red, how could I set "lty" etc.?
>
> Vittorio
>
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