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Message-ID: <426526FF.7070600@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: 2005-04-19T15:42:55Z
From: Gavin Simpson
Subject: Aspect ratio and limits
In-Reply-To: <426523B1.2040903@lancaster.ac.uk>

Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> Suppose I have the following data I want to scatterplot:
> 
<snip>
> 
>  Is there a right way to do this? The only way I can think is to do the 
> plot without box and axes, and then add them afterwards, but that could 
> get very messy. Have I missed something obvious?
>

Package MASS has eqscplot() which can produce rectangular plots with 
equal scales. It is used in Chapter 11 of MASS 4th Ed for example.

G

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