From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Feb  8 12:44:45 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:44:45 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] hollow points bug?
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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?
Prof Brian Ripley