R help - Oct 2004 - box() and hist()

Hi,
does anybody know why the following is not working:
> hist(rnorm(200))
> box(bty="o")
gives me a box without rounded corners.

System:
> R.Version()
$platform
[1] "i386-pc-mingw32"

$arch
[1] "i386"

$os
[1] "mingw32"

$system
[1] "i386, mingw32"

$status
[1] ""

$major
[1] "2"

$minor
[1] "0.0"

$year
[1] "2004"

$month
[1] "10"

$day
[1] "04"

$language
[1] "R"

Thanks, Sven

garbade at mip.paed.uni-muenchen.de writes:
> Hi,
> does anybody know why the following is not working:
> 
> > hist(rnorm(200))
> > box(bty="o")
> 
> gives me a box without rounded corners.
Because that isn't what it is supposed to do. Did you expect "7"
to
give you a slanting right edge? And which letter should represent a
full rectangle?


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On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 12:02, garbade at mip.paed.uni-muenchen.de
wrote:
> Hi,
> does anybody know why the following is not working:
> 
> > hist(rnorm(200))
> > box(bty="o")
> 
> gives me a box without rounded corners.
You will not get rounded corners with box().

The 'bty' argument determines how many sides of the plot region are
drawn using box().

"o" gives you all four sides (1:4)

"l" gives you left and lower (2 and 1)

"7" gives you upper and right (3:4)

"c" gives you all except right (1:2, 3)

"u" gives you all except upper (1:2, 4)

"]" gives you all except left (1, 3:4)

Try this as an example:

plot(1:10, axes = FALSE)
box(bty = "7")

Substitute each of the bty types to review further.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz