From b38677eb7f025848e8ee9eb39ab3b33000f64812 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grant McDermott <gmcd@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:29:21 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] coerce axis vars to numeric for range (test)

---
 R/lim.R | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/R/lim.R b/R/lim.R
index 46d9c0e4..7eb13aad 100644
--- a/R/lim.R
+++ b/R/lim.R
@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ lim_args = function(settings) {
   }
 
   if (is.null(xlim)) {
-    xlim = range(c(
+    xlim = range(as.numeric(c(
       datapoints[["x"]], datapoints[["xmin"]],
-      datapoints[["xmax"]]), finite = TRUE)
+      datapoints[["xmax"]])), finite = TRUE)
   }
   if (is.null(ylim)) {
-    ylim = range(c(
+    ylim = range(as.numeric(c(
       datapoints[["y"]], datapoints[["ymin"]],
-      datapoints[["ymax"]]), finite = TRUE)
+      datapoints[["ymax"]])), finite = TRUE)
   }
 
   if (identical(type, "boxplot")) {

From cb6c1569678c61f1d4e065a529a201fbc5e88922 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grant McDermott <gmcd@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:55:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] redundant to calculate limits for added layers

---
 R/tinyplot.R | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/R/tinyplot.R b/R/tinyplot.R
index ab40ee48..72fd8b12 100644
--- a/R/tinyplot.R
+++ b/R/tinyplot.R
@@ -882,8 +882,9 @@ tinyplot.default = function(
   #
   
   # do this after computing yaxb because limits will depend on the previous calculations
-  lim_args(settings)
-
+  if (!add) {
+    lim_args(settings)
+  }
 
   #
   ## facets: count -----

From 6a6d1bd4273d4f9a9e2259207cf6886384d6ce3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grant McDermott <gmcd@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:11:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] news

---
 NEWS.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 93aa1fa4..45dcb16e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ where the formatting is also better._
   the functions called rather than just their names. (#504 @zeileis)
 - Legend labels are now correct if `by` is logical. Thanks to @TCornulier for
   the report. (#512 @grantmcdermott)
+- Axis limits are now correctly calculated for factor (and character) variables,
+  by coercing to numeric first. We also avoid the redundancy of re-calculating
+  axis limits for secondary plot layers. (#513 @grantmcdermott) 
 
 ### Documentation