[Rd] plotCI error when trying to omit upper or lower bars (PR#7764)

ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de
Fri Apr 1 16:32:04 CEST 2005


volker.franz at tuebingen.mpg.de wrote:

> Full_Name: Volker Franz
> Version: 2.0.1  (2004-11-15)
> OS: Mac OSX / Debian
> Submission from: (NULL) (84.58.8.232)
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> the new version of plotCI (Version: 2.0.3 of gplots) produces errors

So this is not a bug in R!
Please report bugs (if this is really a bug) to the package maintainer.

Uwe Ligges



> if the upper or lower error bars should be omitted by passing NULL as
> an argument. Older versions of plotCI had no problem with this. Here 
> is an example:
> 
> library(gplots)
> means  <- c(1,2,3,4,5)
> upperw <- c(1,1,1,1,1)
> lowerw <- c(1,1,1,1,1)
> upper  <- means+upperw
> lower  <- means-lowerw
> 
> plotCI(x=means,uiw=upperw,liw=lowerw) #Works fine
> plotCI(x=means,ui=upper,li=lower)     #Works fine
> 
> ##Error with uiw and liw:
> plotCI(x=means,uiw=NULL,liw=lowerw) #Error: subscript out of bounds
> plotCI(x=means,uiw=upperw,liw=NULL) #Error: subscript out of bounds
> 
> ##Error with ui and li:
> plotCI(x=means,ui=NULL ,li=lower) #Error: Argument "uiw" is missing, with no
> default
> plotCI(x=means,ui=upper,li=NULL)  #Error: Argument "uiw" is missing, with no
> default
> 
> ##These are errors, because the plotCI-help says: 
> ##      uiw: width of the upper or right error bar. Set to 'NULL' omit
> ##           upper bars.
> ##      liw: width of the lower or left error bar.  Defaults to same value
> ##           as 'uiw'.  Set to 'NULL' to omit lower bars. 
> ##      ui: upper end of error bars.  Defaults to 'y + uiw' or 'x + uiw'
> ##          depeding on 'err'.  Set to 'NULL' omit upper bars. 
> ##      li: lower end of error bars.  Defaults to 'y - liw' or 'x - liw'
> ##          depedning on 'err'.  Set to 'NULL' to omit lower bars.
> 
> Best
> Volker
> 
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