R devel - Sep 2000 - identify.default ignores any setting of cex. (PR#660)

R 1.1.1 on Windows, but I think this is widespread.

Using either

par(cex=0.5)
plot(1:10)
identify(1:10)

or

plot(1:10)
identify(1:10, cex=0.5)

ignores the cex setting.  The root cause is that par(cex=0.5)
alters cexbase for the device but sets cex=1.0, and the internal
text plotting routines use cex and not cexbase.

The obvious fix is to set cex to cexbase in do_identify. However,
if this is fixed, there is another problem, The offset of the label
is related to the cex in use for the label, and not for the symbol.
So

plot(1:10, type="n")
points(1:10, cex=5)
identify(1:10)

is not sensible in placing the labels.  That may be hard to anticipate,
but 

plot(1:10)
identify(1:10, cex=0.5)

needs to use cex=1 not cex=0.5 for the adjustment.  Perhaps identify is
trying too hard, and should give the user more control over the precise
position of the label (as S-PLUS does).

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
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