R devel - Jan 2004 - Enhancement to termplot()

I'd like to make the following change to termplot():

Add panel=points as an extra parameter.

Replace
        if (partial.resid)
             points(xx, pres[, i], cex = cex, pch = pch, col = col.res, 
...)
by
        if (partial.resid)
             panel(xx, pres[, i], cex = cex, pch = pch, col = col.res, 
...)

Also, I think, add col.smooth, span and iter as named parameters; see 
below.

This allows, e.g., the following

par(mfcol=c(2, 2))
data(mtcars)
cars.lm <- lm(mpg~disp+hp, data=mtcars)
termplot(cars.lm, partial.resid=T, panel=panel.smooth, 
col.smooth="blue")
termplot(cars.lm, partial.resid=T, panel=panel.smooth, col.terms=0,
                 col.smooth="blue")

(col.terms=0 hides the fitted response line or curve.)
These partial regression plots can be highly insightful in a regression
context.

Inclusion of col.smooth, span and iter as named parameters is not
strictly necessary, but it does avert complaints from plot() when they
are passed as unnamed parameters.

(I foreshadowed this when I submitted problem #6327, and offered a fix
that, in default of anything better, I assume will be made or has been 
made.)

John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald@anu.edu.au
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Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, John Maindonald wrote:
> I'd like to make the following change to termplot():
>
> Add panel=points as an extra parameter.
>
> (I foreshadowed this when I submitted problem #6327, and offered a fix
> that, in default of anything better, I assume will be made or has been
> made.)
I added a smooth= option, and fixed the bug at that time (a search of
bugs.r-project.org finds it in Models-fixed).  The suggested
fix didn't quite work, but a modification of it did.

BTW, for people who don't know, you can usually find help pages for
R-devel linked at the R web page, allowing you to check if things have
been changed.  At the moment it hasn't caught up with the reorganisation
of the base packages.

	-thomas