On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Sarah Goslee wrote: > >> Hi Frank, >> >> It's not inaccuracy, exactly, and it's intentional. >> >> The default behavior is to use a round endcap on a line, and with such >> a large linewidth that endcap is arcing below and above the starting >> points. >> >> This being R, there's a par for that: putting lend=1 in your lines() >> statements will give you the result you're looking for. > > And for those who can't remember which is which, lend = "butt".
Which then confuses those of us who can't remember whether a butt is supposed to be round or flat. :) I'm content to look in the help when I need that parameter. -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.