lwd less than 1

Hi,

Thank you for helping,

Actually, lwd=.5 in plot() or par() brings neither error nor warning 
message, but lwd below 1 seems not to be taken into account, as 
plot(..., lwd=1) and plot(..., lwd=.5) look quite the same.

Besides, it is mentioned in the lwd section of the par() help page :
" (...) some devices do not implement line widths less than one".

What I am looking for is how to get readable plots (with not too wide 
lines) after size reduction...

Best regards,

Jacques VESLOT


Paul Murrell a ??crit :

Hi


Jacques VESLOT wrote:

Dear R-users,

Someone, who uses R under Mac, wants to insert a couple of small 
plots (each with several lines) in an article, but he has to reduce 
plots' size significantly. He did it (in pdf or enc. ps) but, 
unfortunately, everything is reduced but lines' width. Besides, 'lwd' 
argument in par() or plot() can't be less than one.

IANAMU (I am not a Mac user) either, but you should definitely be able 
to set lwd to less than 1.   What happens when you try par(lwd=.5) or 
plot(1:10, type="l", lwd=.5)?

Paul

I am not a Mac user and I don't know whether it is a Mac-related 
problem or not.

Could somebody please give me a way to solve this problem, either to 
reduce line width under R, or to get reduced lines' width when 
reducing plot size ?

Thanks,

Jacques VESLOT
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