How to translate point size in cex into units of plot in R
问题 I try to figure out how big the radii of the points in my plot in x and y direction are going to be, with their size being set by cex . I want to create a plotting function which needs this information. It appears to me as if cex would be this magical parameter and nobody actually knows what exactly it is going to do. I am creating a plot with the png function. I set a graph width and height. I set par(mar) and par(oma) . I plot an empty plot with an xlim and ylim being set, and add an