Thanks Erik, grid.lines() gives me exactly what I wanted. Have a nice weekend! Thomas
library(grid) pdf("rect.pdf", paper="a4r") grid.lines(x=c(1,1,3),c(1,2,2),default.units="cm") grid.lines(x=c(1,1,3)+1,c(1,2,2)+0.5,default.units="cm",gp=gpar(col="blue")) dev.off() ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.