[R] barplot(*, ylim = c("y1 > 0", y2))

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Malte Wiener <jan.wiener at tuebingen.mpg.de> writes:

     talking about barplot()

    Jan> Well, unfortunately changing ylim does not work properly, try changing 
    Jan> it to ylim= c(30,100) and look at the plot !!!

i.e., e.g.,

  data(VADeaths)
  barplot(VADeaths, beside=TRUE, legend=rownames(VADeaths),ylim=c(30,100))

which may not be as desired, but not really wrong either.
(and as Jari Oksanen just said, can be amended by setting `xpd=FALSE')

However, cutting off a barplot() like that seems VERY MUCH like a bad
example of applying
	`` How to Lie With Statistics ''
(used to be a "must read" : Darrel Huff (1954) {How to Lie With Statistics} )
and maybe we should not allow this easily with barplot(). .. :-)

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