[R] ?plot: Add an example on how to plot functions to the help of `plot`.

Bert Gunter
Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:26:07 -0000

Paul:
No such change is needed. You do not understand S3 methods. See
?plot.default and read about S3 methods (e.g. in the tutorial
Introduction to R or the Language manual).

-- Bert

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Dear R folks,
>
>
> currently the section Examples contains the following as an example on
> how to plot a ?normal? function.
>
> ? ? ? ?plot(sin, -pi, 2*pi)
>
> Since it does not contain the argument for the function it would be
> helpful to add for example the following.
>
> ? ? ? ?## plots the graph of f(x) = x**2 with f(x) ? [1, 10]
>
> ? ? ? ?curve(x**2, 1, 10)
>
> ? ? ? ?## plots the graph of f(x) = x**3 with f(x) ? [1, 10] and adds it to
an already existing plot
>
> ? ? ? ?curve(x**3, 1, 10, add=T)
>
> ? ? ? ?## plots the graph of f(x) = x**4 connected by lines and adds it to
an already existing plot
>
> ? ? ? ?lines(x, x**4, add=T)
>
> `curve` and `lines` could be also added to the section See Also.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
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Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics