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

[hadley wickham]

On 10/9/07, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, 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?
>
> No.  R is quite capable of scaling by 25.4.

Where did the inches come from?  Is it for compatibility with S-plus?
I can't imagine that Ross would have used inches by default.

Hadley

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