[Rd] can't plot a line

Marc Schwartz
2007-01-23T16:02:10Z

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 07:41 -0800, Spencer Graves wrote:
> Consider the following:
>
>       plot(0, 0, xlim=c(-10, 10), ylim=c(-50, 50))
>       lines(c(0,0), (2*c(-pi, pi))^2)
>
>       I see no line in this plot.
>
> R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices"
"utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
> [7] "base"
>
>       My work around is the following:
>
>       pi2.2 <- (2*pi)^2
>       lines(c(0, 0), c(-pi2.2, pi2.2))
>
>       Why won't "lines(c(0,0), (2*c(-pi, pi))^2)" work for
me?
>       Thanks,
>       Spencer Graves

In the first case, you are squaring 2*pi and 2*-pi, both resulting in
the same positive number:

> (2*c(-pi, pi))^2
[1] 39.47842 39.47842

You are going from (0,39.47842) to (0,39.47842), hence no line.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz