[R] hist, lines, rug

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Kim Wong wrote:

> I'm trying to plot a historgram with a density plot superimposed:
>  
> hist(x, seq(-1, 1, by = 0.1), prob = T, col = "blue")
> lines(density(x,  bw = 0.1))
> rug(x)
>  
> I don't want to add rug(x) but the histogram will not be plotted unless
> rug(x) is there. It does not work if the "hist" line alone is present.
> Can you help?

No, as 

x <- runif(1000, -1, 1)
hist(x, seq(-1, 1, by = 0.1), prob = T, col = "blue")
lines(density(x,  bw = 0.1))

works for me.  Please give us a fully reproducible example (what is x? 
what version of R? what graphics device? ...).

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