[R] behaviour of plot(...,type="l")

[ben@zoo.ufl.edu]

   I second the motion ... (I've always liked gnuplot's "set data style"
option.)

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Zoltan Barta wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 08:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Thomas Lumley 
> <thomas at biostat.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> > plot.default() has an argument type=, so it *always* resets the plotting
> > type. If you don't specify that argument it resets it to the default, "p".
> > 
> > It could be changed to default to par("type") but I don't see when this
> > would be helpful.
> 
> It can be helpful if you are plotting a lot of line drawing (which is 
> my case) and you would not like to set 'type="l"' in all of your plot 
> commands. Of course, you can write a small function for that but I 
> feel that it would be nicer to be able to set this with par().
> 
> Zoltan Barta
> 
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