[R] Problem with a barplot...

[Steven Hamblin]

Jim,

Thanks for the suggestion!  It worked great.  (I wonder why that isn't
documented in the help file for barplot...seems logical to me.  <shrug>)

Cheers,

Steven Hamblin
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Master of Arts student
Department of Psychology, University of Alberta.
Office: P-319F, Biological Sciences
Phone:  492-6681  e-mail: srh3 at ualberta.ca


On 10/13/05 2:12 AM, "Jim Lemon" <bitwrit at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> Steven Hamblin wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm having a bit of a problem with a plot, and I'm hoping that someone might
>> be able to help.  I'm running the R Cocoa Gui v1.12 on OS X 10.4.2, and I'm
>> doing a stacked bar plot.  The plot itself is quite simple:
>> 
>> barplot(as.matrix(s.strats.in),main="Strategy when strong", col=strat.col)
>> 
>> where s.strats.in is a matrix with a number of rows that define the height
>> of each stacked bar.  However, ever since I expanded the number of columns
>> from 100 to 500, the borders of the bars are overwhelming the plot (the bars
>> are proportionally smaller, and thus the colours are getting muddied by the
>> black borders).  Changing the border colour doesn't help at all, and I was
>> hoping that there was a way to remove the borders of the bars (i.e. have
>> each bar snug right up against the next).  I've tried varying any parameter
>> that seems to have the slightest relation, but no luck.
>> 
>> Can someone point how to remove the borders or perhaps suggest an equivalent
>> way to do this with another function?  I would appreciate any and all help.
>> 
> Hi Steven,
> 
> Try border=NA (not explained in the barplot help page, but elsewhere).
> 
> Jim
>