auto.aspect {mining}R Documentation

Choose aspect ratio

Description

Uses Cleveland's "banking to 45" rule to determine an optimal aspect ratio for a plot.

Usage

auto.aspect(x,y)

Arguments

x,y numeric vectors of coordinates defining a continuous curve, or multiple curves delimited by NAs. Alternatively, x can be a list of two vectors.

Value

An aspect ratio, suitable for the asp parameter to plot or plot.window.

Author(s)

Tom Minka

Examples

data(lynx)
plot(lynx)
plot(lynx,asp=auto.aspect(time(lynx),lynx))
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