[R] plot(...,type='h') and the pdf driver don't play nice

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> Yes.  Try in postscript() too.  I just followed postscript, but
> consciously that one had to specify the desired behaviour.
> 
> That's not the way to draw boxes ....

Exactly. For a bar plot, try barplot().
 
> Sophisticated graphics interfaces have options for how lines end and join,
> but S's (and hence R's) predates such things.  )But Windows' GDI does not,
> as far as I know.)

Not by much I think. PostScript has always had round/bevel/miter joins
and is roughly the same age as S. Of course the GRZ model on which S
builds is still older... I think the basic issue is that round joins
are the only thing that works at acute angles without unpleasant
artifacts, so if we want a single common polyline routine to do all
line drawing, round joins will look best, and line endings follow from
that I believe, but things like box(lwd=10) get to look odd. I suppose
we could add a graphics parameter for join style. One more or less...

BTW, I gather that GDI does have PS_JOIN_MITER &friends, or was that
not what you meant?

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