R help - Jan 1999 - Bug in coplot()

I am using R0.63.1 under Windows 95.

Settings of <number> and <interval> when coplot is called
are ignored, except for generating a warning.  For example:
> data(quakes)
> coplot(long ~ lat | depth * mag, data = quakes, number=3) 
Warning: parameter "number" couldn't be set in high-level plot()
function

The warning is repeated ad nauseum.

The following changes seem needed:
(1) Make <number=6> and <overlap=0.5> named arguments
    to coplot.  (If used as ... parameters, there is an
    attempt to use them as plot parameters, generating the
    warning messages.)

(2) Within the braces following 
    <if(have.b)>
    include the statements

      if(length(number)==1) number<-rep(number,2)      # Add 
      if(length(overlap)==1) overlap<-rep(overlap,2)   # Add 

(3) Change the first invocation of <co.intervals> in <coplot>
    from <else a.intervals <- co.intervals(a)> to

    else a.intervals <- co.intervals(a,number=number[1],overlap=overlap[1]) #
Replacement

    and the second invocation from
    from <b.intervals <- co.intervals(b)> to

    else b.intervals <- co.intervals(b,number=number[2],overlap=overlap[2]) #
Replacement

(4) One might also check that <number> and <overlap> have
    legal values.

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Or is there some better way of attending to this?

John Maindonald               email : john.maindonald at anu.edu.au        
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I've committed a fixed version of coplot 
to the Release-patches.
These should become available in CRAN../src/devel/R-release.*
by Sunday (or Monday?) (or in the next release of R...).

The patches include John's proposed fixes and a few more..
For the help file, I'm looking for interesting examples
(with default data sets or generated ones), especially when the
conditioning variable(s) is a (/are) factor(s).

Martin
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