barplot manpage (PR#7331)
Should these be in the (see also section)? Like I said, the pages read fine if you understand the content already. I think some less formal man pages would drastically reduce the traffic on the R mailing list. Just a hunch, Dan.
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Tony Plate wrote:
Look at the help page for "par" for explanations of "cex" and "lty". The use of 'mp' is as a variable, as in
mp <- barplot(....)
The next paragraph refers to this variable. -- Tony Plate At Monday 05:12 PM 11/1/2004, dan@bolser.co.uk wrote:
Full_Name: Dan B
Version: R 2.0.0 (2004-10-04).
OS: Fedora 2
Submission from: (NULL) (80.6.127.185)
The man page for barplot (?barplot) is confusing...
<quote>
cex.axis: expansion factor for numeric axis labels.
cex.names: expansion factor for axis names (bar labels).
</quote>
What is an 'expansion factor', and what does it do in this context?
<quote>
axis.lty: the graphics parameter 'lty' applied to the axis and tick
marks of the categorical (default horizontal) axis. Note
that by default the axis is suppressed.
</quote>
This makes no sense unless you know what it does already (which I don't). So
this is more of a programmers cleft note in a 'common language' than a
function
documentation page.
<quote>
say 'mp', giving the coordinates of _all_ the bar midpoints drawn,
</quote>
Say what?
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