[R] plot region ??

[Uwe Ligges]

Jan Malte Wiener wrote:
> 
> hi,
> i am using the barplot function, but i have problems with the plot
> region when adjusting the bar width manually. if you only want to plot 2
> bars the default barwidth is to wide (aesthetically speaking). by
> adjusting width and xlim one can actually produce narrow bars, but then
> the plotted graph is not in the center of the plot region, which means
> that for example the title of the plot isn't centered above the barplot.
> 
> e.g.
> toPlot<-c(5,6)
> barplot(toPlot, width=c(0.4), xlim=c(0,3))
> title(main = "Female - Male", font.main=2)
> 
> any ideas how to get rid of this problem ??

barplot() returns the x locations, so just call it two times (the second
time more fuzzy) as follows, or look at the code how the locations are
calculated internally.

  temp <- barplot(toPlot, width = 0.4)
  barplot(toPlot, width = 0.4, xlim = mean(temp) + c(-2, 2))
 
Uwe Ligges
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