[R] How to create a floating bar plot

[Rmh]

yes it handles completely on one side.
your sample included that case.

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On Jun 1, 2012, at 2:15, Roberto Brunelli <roby.brunelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to both of you,
> 
> close to the solution, but I think that your proposals do not address
> the case when a bar is completely positive (or negative): I do not
> think that the histogram can not be extended easily to this case ... I
> had  a look at the likert function but it is not clear to me if it is
> able to manage this case ...
> 
> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Richard M. Heiberger <rmh at temple.edu> wrote:
>> Please look at the likert function in the HH package.
>> ?likert
>> has many examples.
>> Here is the code for your query
>> 
>> ## install.packages("HH") ## if necessary
>> library(HH)
>> twobar <- data.frame(neg=c(8,0,9,2), pos=c(12,9,0,4))
>> likert(twobar)
>> 
>> Rich
>> 
>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Roberto,
>>> 
>>> The R Graph Gallery is an excellent resource for this kind of
>>> question. You can browse the thumbnails until you find something that
>>> leads you in the right direction, like maybe:
>>> 
>>> http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=136
>>> 
>>> Sarah
>>> 
>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Roberto Brunelli
>>> <roby.brunelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I would like to create a 'bar' plot with the following look
>>>> 
>>>>            -            0         +
>>>> -------------------------+----------------------
>>>>            oooooooo************
>>>>                                    *********
>>>>   ooooooooo
>>>>                        oo****
>>>> 
>>>> where the positive and negative parts of the bar
>>>> should have a different color.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there any function/package supporting this kind of plot?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>> 
>>>> Roberto
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Sarah Goslee
>>> http://www.functionaldiversity.org
>>> 
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