[R] more barplot presentation questions

[Gavin Simpson]

Hi Paul,

for the first question try ?grid

as in:

 > barplot(1:10)
 > grid(nx = NA, ny = NULL, col = "red")

nx = NA sets no lines on x-axis. ny = NULL draws lines from all tick 
marks on the y-axis.

HTH

Gav

Paul Sorenson wrote:

> Thanks to those who pointed me at the solutions to the legend
> overprinting the bars.  I took the "easy" way of rescaling the y
> axis, picking the scaling factor for stacked bars is somewhat
> problematic but sufficient for my application.
> 
> I have another couple of barplot questions:
> 
> - Can I extend the major ticks on the Y axis across the page?  Or
> both axes to form a grid?
> 
> - A really neat graph for me would be a combination of side-by-side
> and stacked bars in a single plot to display an additional category.
> 
> The background on the second problem is that I am displaying software
> defect metrics.  For each month (the bins) the categories of interest
> are: - new/fixed/closed - numeric severity (1 - 5)
> 
> I am currently displaying 5 separate graphs (6 when you take the
> aggregate into account) with new/fixed/closed side-by-side.  If
> within the side-by-side graphs I could show the severity stacked that
> would be very neat.
> 
> Cheers
> 
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