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Re: passing options to a new graphics function

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  • Subject: [mg565] Re: [mg549] passing options to a new graphics function
  • From: bob Hanlon <hanlon at pafosu2.hq.af.mil>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 10:52:03

On Wed, 15 Mar 1995, Hamburger Dani wrote:

> How do I pass an option to a new graphics function I define?
> For example:
> 
> LogLogListPlot[x_List] :=
> ListPlot[Transpose[ {Log[10,Transpose[x][[1]]],Log[10,Transpose[x][[2]]]} ] ] ;
> 
> But I would like to have plot-labels as well, so
> LogLogListPlot[x,PlotLabel->"xxx"] should work. How do I extend the definition
> of LogLogListPlot to enable this?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions,

Here's one way:


Needs["ProgrammingExamples`FilterOptions`"]
(*  standard Mathematica package  *)

? FilterOptions

FilterOptions[symbol, options...] returns a sequence of those options that
   are valid options for symbol.

FilterOptions[ Plot, Frame -> True, PlotDivision -> 30, whatever -> 10 ]
(*  "whatever" is not a valid option for Plot and is eliminated  *)

Sequence[Frame -> True, PlotDivision -> 30]

Log[10, {{x1, y1}, {x2, y2}, {x3, y3}}]  (*  i.e., Log is Listable  *)

  Log[x1]  Log[y1]    Log[x2]  Log[y2]    Log[x3]  Log[y3]
{{-------, -------}, {-------, -------}, {-------, -------}}
  Log[10]  Log[10]    Log[10]  Log[10]    Log[10]  Log[10]

LogLogListPlot[ data_List, opts___Rule ] :=                               
                  
	Module[ { plotOpts = FilterOptions[ Plot, opts ] }, 
	(*  additional options can be defined for LogLogListPlot 
		but only valid Plot options are passed to ListPlot  *)
		ListPlot[ Log[10, data], plotOpts ]
	]

data = Table[{k, Random[ Real, {1, 1000}]}, {k, 50}];  (*  random data  *)

LogLogListPlot[ data, 
	PlotLabel -> "LogLog of data",
	AxesLabel -> {"data", None} ]; 
	(*  all plot options are available  *)





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