[R] Alignment of lines within barplot bars

[Greg Snow]

Look at the updateusr function in the TeachingDemos package.

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Statistical Data Center
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> project.org] On Behalf Of snowboarder101
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:38 PM
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> Subject: Re: [R] Alignment of lines within barplot bars
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am dealing with a similar issue, I am trying to use a barplot in
> conjunction with some points plotted and want to line the two up. This
> all
> works fine, but I am dealing with the additional complication that I
> have
> two y-ranges. The barplot is based on one range, while the points are
> based
> on another. The way I have been dealing with this is to use barplot(),
> and
> then use a par(new=T), and then do the plot. So I have axis(2) with the
> points, and axis(4) with the barplot values. However, the points don't
> line
> up. When I do it the other way and do barplot(), points() with the
> barplot()
> x coordinates, the range isn't correct, and not all points appear.
> 
> I can force barplot() to use my range of points, but then the bars are
> too
> small. I can also try to normalize my points to be in the same range as
> the
> barplot() data, but then I have issues labeling it appropriately. That
> is,
> my axis(2) is incorrect, and I need this whole thing to function
> dynamically
> in a function, so I can't explicitly list the labels.
> 
> Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
> 
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