[R] Barplot and R 1.9.0

[Michael Bibo]

I would like to preface this by saying that I have not been using R for long, and consider myself a beginner.  But the more I use and learn R, the more impressed I am with both the 'product' itself, and the efforts of those developing it.

It has been noted (eg Duncan Murdoch, 15 April), that the barplot function in R 1.9.0, when used on a tabulated single factor, produces a plot only one bar wide, and seems to superimpose the other bars.

It may be useful for users to note that the barplot2 function from the 'gregmisc' package still works as barplot did in R 1.8.1.

Consider:

library(gregmisc)
x<-rep(1:3,20)
barplot(table(x))
barplot2(table(x))

for an example.


Michael Bibo
Queensland Health
michael_bibo at health.qld.gov.au



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