On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Richard Nixon wrote: > Hi > Just one of those niggles....... > > I've just been trying to plot a filled circle. > I thought that this would do it > > plot(1,1,type="n") > points(1,1,pch=1,bg="blue",cex=5) > #bg: background ("fill") color for open plot symbols > > But I need to do this instead > points(1.2,1,pch=19,col="blue",cex=5) > > Am I misunderstanding the "bg" option in the points function?
Yes. See the examples. pch=1 is not an `open plot symbol': 21-25 are. So in your case points(1.3, 1, pch=21, col="blue", bg="red", cex=5) may be illuminating. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html