[R] Round a line

[Uwe Ligges]

Luis Ridao Cruz wrote:

> R-help,
> 
> I have lloked in the archives found no answer to how to round the line
> joint.
> 
> I have usedthe arguments lnd, ljoin in par but I get no differences in
> the plotting.
> 
> x=1:10
> par(ljoin="round",lend="round")
> plot(x,sin(x),type="l",lwd=2)
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?


Well, round is the default! You have to zoom in or make even thicker 
lines. Hence you might want to try out the folowing to see differences:

   x <- 1:10
   par(mfrow = c(1, 2))
   plot(x, sin(x), type="l", lwd=10)
   par(ljoin="mitre", lend="butt")
   plot(x, sin(x), type="l", lwd=10)

Uwe Ligges



> I run on a Windows XP machine.
> 
> 
>>version
> 
>          _              
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386           
> os       mingw32        
> system   i386, mingw32  
> status                  
> major    2              
> minor    1.0            
> year     2005           
> month    04             
> day      18             
> language R  
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
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