[R] slanted ends of horizontal lines for certain line widths

[Charles Annis, P.E.]

I think you want to change par()$lend

Type 

par()  <enter>

to see the defaults.

In your situation you might want to begin with something like

dev.off()
par(mar=c(4,6,4,5)+0.1, lend=2)
... then your plotting logic ...

Where the "mar" argument adjusts the margins.  (You can omit this if you're
happy with the defaults.)  And the line end, lend=2, makes the ends square.

Best wishes.

Charles Annis, P.E.

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[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Robert Offinger
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 11:24 AM
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] slanted ends of horizontal lines for certain line widths

Hello,

if I plot a horizontal line, e.g.,

  plot(c(1,2),c(1,1),xlim=c(0,3),lwd=2,type="l")

or

  plot(c(1,2),c(1,1),xlim=c(0,3),lwd=4,type="l")

then the left end (1st example) or both ends (2nd example) of the lines
are not rectangular but slanted on the graphical display (screen).
That behavour first occurred when I was trying to plot a stepfun, e.g.,

y <- round(rnorm(12),1)
Fn12 <- ecdf(y)
plot(Fn12,verticals= FALSE, do.p = FALSE,lwd=2,col.h="red")
plot(Fn12,verticals= FALSE, do.p = FALSE,lwd=4,col.h="red")

(lwd=3 seems okay)

Bug or feature?
Suggestions? (I don't like the slanted ends but lwd=2 would be better
than lwd=3)

Robert Offinger
OvG-Universität Magdeburg

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