[R] smoothing plot(x, type ='l')

[Federico Calboli]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
  > It I understand you aright, that is done by par(lend) but the default is
> "round".  So maybe your graphics device (unstated) on your OS (unstated) 
> does not support this.

graphics device = X11 (xserver-xorg)
OS = Debian GNU/Linux, Kernel 2.4.27-2-686-smp

> 
> We need more details, and preferably a simple reproducible example.

s.off.dist
   [1] 27 26 15  7 32 50 31 19  1 11  8  4  4  5 11 28  4 32  5 39 15 32  3  3  4
  [26]  1  2  2 22  1 23  4  2  8 40 14 42  3  1  4  3  4  4  6  2 29  4  8  5  9
  [51] 37  2  1 13 13 35  6  9  2  5 31 10  7  1  4 22  3 23  4 10  8 57  1  6  1
  [76]  1  4 10 16  3 12  3 10  8 10 11 16 19  5  5  9  9  3  4  1  8  3 12  3 65
[101]  1  7 21  7  2  4 35 15  6  2  6  4  1 14  4 10 24  3  4  3  2  4 11  4  7
[126] 13  7  1  6  2  4 16  3 13 66 10  4  7  2 17  6  4  3  5  6  8  3  3 10 19
[151]  7  3 17  6  6  6  2  9  5  4  4 18  2  3 17 43 22 12  1  3  1  9  3  5  1
[176]  2  5 36 12 23  1  8 10  6  7 19  5 13  2  5  3  9  3  1 12  4  5  3  6  3
[201]  5  1  1 16  6 12  1  5  4  2  2  4  9  9  3 11  7  4  8 14  5 17  3  3 15
[226]  2  4  2 11 13  1 19  7  4  3 20  2  8  5  2  3  4  2  5  5 10  1  9 10  8
[251]  4  4  2  1  3  5  3  1  4  5 13 12  6  5  4  3 10  5  4  1

plot(hist(s.off.dist, breaks = 'fd')$counts ~ hist(s.off.dist, breaks = 'fd')$m, 
type = 'l')

I want the edges to look round, if at all possible.

Cheers,

Federico



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