[R] issue with plot (type="h")

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Gasper Cankar" <gasper.cankar at ric.si> writes:

> Hello everyone.
> 
> For reasons too long to explain I wanted to do plots similar to histograms with plot(type="h"). 
> I ran into a problem - if I set line width too high, histogram isn't accurate anymore.
> 
> For example:
> 
> par(lend=2)
> plot(c(2,4,3,2),ylim=c(0,5), type="h")
> abline(h=3)
> 
> Column 3 appears just as high as it should. But if I do
> 
> par(lend=2)
> plot(c(2,4,3,2),ylim=c(0,5), type="h",lwd=100)
> abline(h=3)
> 
> then columns become too high. Can I correct the problem or is there another way to display my data correctly?
> 
> Thanks for help,

lend=1 seems to cure it.

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