Ken Knoblauch <ken.knoblauch <at> inserm.fr> writes: > First, I want to thank everybody who responded for their > helpful comments and suggestions, though the problem is > still unresolved and if anyone has any additional ideas, > I would be grateful. Second, if I can test your patience > just a bit more, I have found an additional clue that > perhaps will help solve the mystery of the missing dotted > lines (on my system, apparently). > > I tried on another Leopard system (64 bit R) with the same result, and then > on a system running Tiger (all with a version of R 2.10.1 patched), > The dotted lines appeared on Tiger. I transferred the Tiger generated > file to my Leopard Mac and the dotted line appears on the viewer, > here, as well. So, I investigated how the files might differ > and the only thing that I can find is that the Tiger generated > version contains the lines > > 1 J > 1 j > > whereas, in the Leopard generated version, I only see > > 1 j > > If I add a line of 1 J to the Leopard generated file, after line 35, > the dotted lines do appear in my viewer. > > I don't know what these commands do in pdf (I don't speak pdf). > Would anyone have an idea what could have happened that my pdf() > command does not produce them and most importantly, any ideas on > how to fix it?
> >> -- > >> Ken Knoblauch > >> Inserm U846 > >> Stem-cell and Brain Research Institute > >> Department of Integrative Neurosciences > >> 18 avenue du Doyen Lépine > >> 69500 Bron > >> France > >> tel: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 77 > >> fax: +33 (0)4 72 91 34 61 > >> portable: +33 (0)6 84 10 64 10 > >> http://www.sbri.fr/members/kenneth-knoblauch.html Some additional search in the pdf reference manual and I found that 1 j refers to linejoin choice (ljoin = 1 in par) 1 J to line end (lend = 1 in par) >From this I tried, pdf(file = "testPP.pdf") par(lend = 1) # the default is 0 according to ?par x <- 1:10 plot(x, type = "l", lty = 3, lwd = 3) lines(x, 0.5 * x) dev.off() which produces the correct dotted line (in my viewer)... I can add par(lend = 1) throughout my Sweave document, I guess. If anybody has any further suggestions, or how to fix this globally, I'm interested in hearing from you. Thanks. Ken _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac