No objections from Martin or elsewhere, so I have now committed this.
Thanks, Uwe.
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> [CCing Martin and Brian who had both done most svn commits of boxplot.R so
> far]
>
>
> A very minor wishlist item that I should have already reported years ago:
>
> All the time when I need presentation/publication quality boxplots, I add
> par(lend=1) in my code in order to suppress the ugly median line that does
> not stop at the end of the box given the rounded line endings.
>
> Ugly example:
>
> boxplot(1:10, lwd=30)
>
>
>
> I'd like the following very minor change for boxplots:
>
> D:\Rcompile\recent\R\src\library\graphics\R>diff -u boxplot.R
boxplot-new.R
> --- boxplot.R 2009-02-24 18:04:47.265625000 +0100
> +++ boxplot-new.R 2009-02-24 18:10:02.000000000 +0100
> @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
> ## Median
> xysegments(xP(x, -wntch), stats[3L],
> xP(x, +wntch), stats[3L],
> - lty = medlty[i], lwd = medlwd[i], col = medcol[i])
> + lty = medlty[i], lwd = medlwd[i], col = medcol[i], lend=1)
> xypoints(x, stats[3L],
> pch = medpch[i], cex = medcex[i], col= medcol[i], bg =
> medbg[i])
> ## Whiskers
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Uwe Ligges
>
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