xspline, graphical parameters and MAXNUMPTS

Hello,

I am having two difficulties with xspline:

1)      Passing lty=2 (via ...) appears to have no effect

2)      Apparently depending on the current plot axes, I may or may not
get the failure: add_point - reached MAXNUMPTS (25200)

This happens both on Linux/R 2.8.0 (details below) and Windows Vista/R
2.8.0 patched (2008-10-21 r46766)

 

Simplest case:

plot(c(0,1),c(0,1))

xspline(c(0,1),c(0,1)) # failure MAXNUMPTS

xspline(c(0,0.5,1),c(0,1,0),border=2,lty=2) # OK-ish, red, but no dashes

 

More complex case:

x <- c(-50.25, -50, -49.75, -0.75, -0.5, -0.25, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 49.75,
50, 50.25)

y <- c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)

s <- c(1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1)

plot(c(0,1),c(0,1))

xspline(x,y,s,open=TRUE,repEnds=FALSE,border=2,lty=2) # fails MAXNUMPTS

points <-
xspline(x,y,s,open=TRUE,repEnds=FALSE,border=2,lty=2,draw=FALSE) #fails
MAXNUMPTS

plot(c(-50,50),c(0,1))

xspline(x,y,s,open=TRUE,repEnds=FALSE,border=2,lty=2) # OK-ish: red, but
no dashes

points <-
xspline(x,y,s,open=TRUE,repEnds=FALSE,border=2,lty=2,draw=FALSE) # works

 

I note from the help page that "Device coordinates are used (with an
anisotropy correction if needed.)", so I assume the difference between
the more complex cases which work and fail is to do with that, but I am
stumped as  to how to use that information! (The only help message
mentioning MAXNUMPTS I can find is to do with grid.xspline, so I cannot
use the solution suggested there without recoding everything into grid.)

 

Thankyou,

 

Keith Ponting

 

 

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plot(c(0,1),c(0,1))

xspline(c(0,1),c(0,1)) # failure MAXNUMPTS

Error in xspline(c(0, 1), c(0, 1)) :

  add_point - reached MAXNUMPTS (25200)

xspline(c(0,0.5,1),c(0,1,0),border=2,lty=2) # OK-ish, red, but no

dashes

x <- c(-50.25, -50, -49.75, -0.75, -0.5, -0.25, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75,

49.75, 50, 50.25)

xspline(x,y,s,open=TRUE,repEnds=FALSE,border=2,lty=2) # fails MAXNUMPTS

points <-
xspline(x,y,s,open=TRUE,repEnds=FALSE,border=2,lty=2,draw=FALSE) #fails
MAXNUMPTS

y <- c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)

s <- c(1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1)

plot(c(0,1),c(0,1))

xspline(x,y,s,open=TRUE,repEnds=FALSE,border=2,lty=2) # fails

MAXNUMPTS

Error in xspline(x, y, s, open = TRUE, repEnds = FALSE, border = 2, lty
= 2) :

  add_point - reached MAXNUMPTS (25200)

points <-

xspline(x,y,s,open=TRUE,repEnds=FALSE,border=2,lty=2,draw=FALSE) #fails
MAXNUMPTS

Error in xspline(x, y, s, open = TRUE, repEnds = FALSE, border = 2, lty
= 2,  :

  add_point - reached MAXNUMPTS (25200)

plot(c(-50,50),c(0,1))

xspline(x,y,s,open=TRUE,repEnds=FALSE,border=2,lty=2) # OK-ish: red,

but no dashes

points <-

xspline(x,y,s,open=TRUE,repEnds=FALSE,border=2,lty=2,draw=FALSE) # works

sessionInfo()

R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)

x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

 

locale:

LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_GB.U
TF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_NAME=
C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATI
ON=C

 

attached base packages:

[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

Sys.info()[c(1:3,5)]

                              sysname
release

                              "Linux"
"2.6.18.2-34-default"

                              version
machine

"#1 SMP Mon Nov 27 11:46:27 UTC 2006"
"x86_64"

 

Keith Ponting

Aurix Ltd, Malvern WR14 3SZ  UK

 


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