A simple solution for R vioplot cut() error

I am using R's violin plots to visualize side-by-side comparison of empirical distributions. At some specifications, the simulated values can all equal to a constant. That will cause the following error.

Error in cut.default(x, breaks = breaks) : 'breaks' are not unique

To resolve this problem, one can try the following simple fix: Instead of vioplot( x, ...). Input vioplot( x+rnorm(length(x), 0, 1e-6), ... Or simply use the function jitter().The variance of the random noise should be much smaller than the scale of x.