R help - Apr 2004 - rectangles without borders

Hi,

I want to draw rectangles with "rect" without borders, but with
shading (ie setting density).  ?rect says

     lty: line type for borders; defaults to '"solid"'.

but if I set it to 0, the border disappears, but the shading also
vanishes!  But the above says that lty is the line type for BORDERS,
and does not mention density at all -- how do I get around this?

Thanks,

Tamas

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The person who added shading did not update the help page for rect ....

Try border=FALSE (and look at ?polygon for more details as to why).


On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Tamas Papp wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to draw rectangles with "rect" without borders, but with
> shading (ie setting density).  ?rect says
> 
>      lty: line type for borders; defaults to '"solid"'.
> 
> but if I set it to 0, the border disappears, but the shading also
> vanishes!  But the above says that lty is the line type for BORDERS,
> and does not mention density at all -- how do I get around this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tamas
> 
> 
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