markextremes {plgraphics}R Documentation

Adjust the default proportion of extreme points to be labeled to the number of observations

Description

Adjusts the proportion of extreme points to be labeled to the number of observations. It is the default of the ploption markextremes.

Usage

markextremes(n)

Arguments

n

number of observations

Details

The function simply applies ceiling(sqrt(n)/2)/n.

Value

A scalar between 0 and 0.5

Author(s)

Werner A. Stahel

Examples

markextremes(20)
for (n in c(10,20,50,100,1000))  print(c(n,markextremes(n)))

[Package plgraphics version 1.2 Index]