[R] lty dots pdf issue

[Ken Knoblauch]

Roger Koenker <rkoenker <at> uiuc.edu> writes:
> I'm trying to redo an old plot with:
> >  sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-02-09 r51113) 
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0 
> When I do:
> 
> pdf("lty.pdf",height = 6, width = 8)
> u <- 1:100/100
> y <- matrix(rep(1:10,each = 100),100)
> matplot(u,y,lwd = 2,type ="l")
> dev.off()
> 
> the line types that have dots are difficult to distinguish 
because the "dots"
> that should appear are rendered as very thin vertical l
ines and it appears
> that the dashes are rendered without the lend "round"
 feature even though
> par() reports that that is the setting.  I'm viewing all 
this with Acrobat 9 pro,
> but my printer produces something quite consistent 
with what is viewable
> on the screen.  

Hi,

Could this be related to the problem that was driving me crazy last week

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2010-February/007123.html

but resolved in the latest patched version?

HTH,

Ken


> Apologies in advance if this has an obvious resolution, I didn't see anything
> in the r-help archive.
> 
> Roger
> 
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