[R] error in color-labeling in plot.lm

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Ulrich Halekoh wrote:

> I want to label groups of points in
> the plot of residuals against predicted values
> generated by plot.lm().
>
> Labelling the points by color
>
> x<-1:15
> y<-rnorm(15)
> f<-factor(rep(c(1:3),each=5))
> g<-glm(y~x)
> plot(g,which=1,col=c(1,2,3)[f])
>
>
> I receive the error message
>
> Error in title(main, sub, xlab, ylab, line, outer, ...) :
>        graphical parameter "col" has the wrong length
>
> How can I resolve the error?

Well, the help does say


      ...: other parameters to be passed through to plotting functions.

and it really is unclear what you intended 'col' to refer to.  But as 
title() is not going to make use of it, it should accept it.  I'll see if I 
can adapt it suitably.

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