From rbeer@uni-goettingen.de  Thu Feb  8 13:22:04 2001
From: rbeer@uni-goettingen.de (Ragnar Beer)
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:22:04 +0100
Subject: [Rd] hollow points bug?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0102081240570.14253-100000@toucan.stats>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0102081240570.14253-100000@toucan.stats>
Message-ID: <p04330102b6a84cbe1a70@[134.76.136.114]>

Got it. Thanks a lot! Perhaps " (pch=21:25)" could be added to the 
line describing bg to add some redundancy.

Ragnar

>On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Ragnar Beer wrote:
>
>>  Howdy!
>>
>>  According to help(points) setting the bg parameter should set the
>>  background fill color for open plot symbols. But when I tried out
>>  (R-1.2.1 on Linux and Mac) e.g. points(1,1,bg="white") I could always
>>  see through the "O". Is this a bug or am getting something wrong?
>
>I believe it refers only to pch=21:25, as described about 10 lines
>further up.  Certainly pch=1 is the outline of a cicrle, not a filled
>circle.  I've made this explicit in the documentation.
>
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[Rd] hollow points bug?
Ragnar Beer