R devel - Mar 2003 - cex.axis in boxplot (PR#2628)

Hi,

the graphical parameter "cex.axis" does not have any affect for
"boxplot":

data(iris)
boxplot(iris[,1:4], ylab="y", cex.lab=2, cex.axis=2)


The patch is simply adding "cex.axis" to the search for axis relevant
parameters in "bxp":

ax.pars <- pars[names(pars) %in% c("xaxt", "yaxt",
"las", "cex.axis")]

Best,

Torsten


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Version:
 platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
 arch = i686
 os = linux-gnu
 system = i686, linux-gnu
 status = Under development (unstable)
 major = 1
 minor = 7.0
 year = 2003
 month = 03
 day = 11
 language = R

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Torsten.Hothorn@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the graphical parameter "cex.axis" does not have any affect for
"boxplot":
> 
> data(iris)
> boxplot(iris[,1:4], ylab="y", cex.lab=2, cex.axis=2)
> 
> 
> The patch is simply adding "cex.axis" to the search for axis
relevant
> parameters in "bxp":
> 
> ax.pars <- pars[names(pars) %in% c("xaxt", "yaxt",
"las", "cex.axis")]
The following works:
  par(cex.axis=2)
  boxplot(iris[,1:4], ylab="y")

Hence not clearly a bug.
And again we have the discusion whether to implement almost all par() 
arguments in functions like boxplot() / bxp() or not. I'll bet there are 
also a few other par() arguments that don't work with bxp().

I refer to Martin Maechler's mail (17.12.02: [Rd] Changing "..."
inside
a function: impossible? desirable?).

Is there a decision (by R-Core)?
Is it desirable to have (almost) (all) par() arguments work as arguments 
of highlevel plot functions?

Uwe Ligges


> Best,
> 
> Torsten
> 
> 
> --please do not edit the information below--
> 
> Version:
>  platform = i686-pc-linux-gnu
>  arch = i686
>  os = linux-gnu
>  system = i686, linux-gnu
>  status = Under development (unstable)
>  major = 1
>  minor = 7.0
>  year = 2003
>  month = 03
>  day = 11
>  language = R
> 
> Search Path:
>  .GlobalEnv, package:methods, package:ctest, package:mva, package:modreg,
> package:nls, package:ts, Autoloads, package:base
> 
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