Hi, please could somebody try the following lines: x<-c(-808996808,-820483729) y<-c(1429449991,372653377) xrange<-c(-824726000,-820002315) yrange<-c(369266958,373990642) # only one point should appear because the other lays outside the plot ranges: plot(x,y,xlim=xrange,ylim=yrange) # this should produce a line directed to the hidden point lines(x,y) If it would work correct, you should get something like this: +---------------+ | / | | o | | | | | | | +---------------+ But my R (0.62.2 on Linux) produces a line downwards, and if I rescale the plot, it changes its direction from downwards to right and to upwards. Whats the matter? May be a rounding error in the X11 code? Postscript versions of this plot are ok: I tried the plot commands from above with postscript("/tmp/test1.ps",horizontal=F,height=7,width=7) postscript("/tmp/test2.ps",horizontal=F,height=7,width=3) postscript("/tmp/test3.ps",horizontal=F,height=3,width=7) and all looked like my sketch above. Of course, the ratio between the ylim dimensions of the plot and the distance in y-direction between the two points is very small (0.004), but why should it work with postscript only? Albrecht ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Albrecht Gebhardt email: albrecht.gebhardt at uni-klu.ac.at Institut fuer Mathematik Tel. : (++43 463) 2700/837 Universitaet Klagenfurt Fax : (++43 463) 2700/834 Villacher Str. 161 WWW : http://www-stat.uni-klu.ac.at/~agebhard A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._