[R] lty=2

[David Scott]

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Guido Masarotto wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 03:14:08PM +0000, Simon  Bond wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I'm using R 63.2 on windows NT, when I use
> > 
> > > lines(x,y, lty=2)
> > 
> > it produces a dashed line between the first pair of points and then reverts
> > back to a solid line. It produces different colours perfectly ok, but it's
> > not really a solution when the plot needs to be printed on a black and
> > white printer. Has anyone got a fix?
>   
>   I have tried a moment ago with rw0632 (Win95) the following lines:
> > x<-rnorm(100)
> > x<-seq(100)
> > y<-rnorm(100)
> > plot(x,y)
> > lines(x,y,lty=2)
>   but I cannot reproduce what you describe. Can you send me more
>   detail on your system (and, please, try the graphics demo,
>   just 'demo(graphics)' <ret>, first plot should show dotted
>   lines).
I have experienced the same problem as Simon. Here is a very simple
example:
> occup
 [1] 0.561 0.702 0.800 0.568 0.575 0.738 0.868 0.605 0.594 0.738 0.729 0.600 0.622 0.708
[15] 0.806 0.632 0.665 0.835 0.873 0.670
> m.a.occup
 [1]       NA       NA 0.659500 0.665750 0.678750 0.691875 0.698875 0.701250 0.683875
[10] 0.665875 0.668750 0.668500 0.674375 0.688000 0.697375 0.718625 0.742875 0.756000
[19]       NA       NA
> plot(occup)
> lines(occup)
> lines(m.a.occup,lty=2)

David Scott

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