[R] barplot axes

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

karen at gecko.biol.wits.ac.za writes:

> Setting ylim=c(0,..) has the strange effect of removing the 0 from the
> axis and changing the interval between tick marks without necessarily
> making the axis extend to the upper value specified. It seems it is not
> possible to make the axis start at 0 when using ylim.
> 
> I see that it's not yet possible to set yaxs = "s" or "e", which I thought
> might help. Am I missing something? 

A bugfix... axes with yaxs="i" doesn't include the endpoints. They do
in S+ and really should do it in R too. The easiest workaround is
along the lines of

  barplot(1:10,ylim=c(-.01,14.01))

(ylim does actually work for setting the plot area. Try adding a box()
to see it).

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