[R] window (x,y) co-ordinates of datapoints

Ken Knoblauch knoblauch at lyon.inserm.fr
Tue Oct 9 14:39:30 CEST 2007


Duncan Murdoch <murdoch <at> stats.uwo.ca> writes:

> 
> On 10/9/2007 8:16 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> > Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> >> 
> >> Read ?par and the descriptiuon in 'An Introduction to R'.  "din",
> >>  "fin", "mai", "omi", "pin" and "usr" are relevant.
> >> 
> > Is there any hope that, instead of fin, din, pin, etc someday
> > we will have fmm, dmm, pmm?
> 
> I don't think so (why mm, not cm or m or km?), but grid allows you to 
> specify the units for most measurements, so one day you may be able to 
> do that in whatever passes for par() by then.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch

For anyone interested, there is a larger selection of units online here,
as well as other places,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix

upon seeing which, I wondered (in the spirit of a google) if 
there was a prefix beyond yotta called lotta?

ken 

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Ken Knoblauch
Inserm U846
Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau
Département Neurosciences Intégratives
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