[R] box() and hist()

[Uwe Ligges]

garbade at mip.paed.uni-muenchen.de wrote:

>>garbade at mip.paed.uni-muenchen.de writes:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>does anybody know why the following is not working:
>>>
>>>
>>>>hist(rnorm(200))
>>>>box(bty="o")
>>>
>>>gives me a box without rounded corners.
>>
>>Because that isn't what it is supposed to do. Did you expect "7" to
>>give you a slanting right edge? And which letter should represent a
>>full rectangle?
> 
> 
> Thought "o" means rectangle with rounded corners... Thanks, Sven


Right, "o" means rectangle (without the word "rounded"). How to change 
the style of line interconnects (e.g. to be "orunded" in a way) is 
descirbed in an article by Paul Murrell in the most recent issue of R News.

Uwe Ligges



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