[R] histogram fill lattice

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:10 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Jun 13, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Powell, Jeff wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to change the "fill" pattern of a histogram using histogram()
>> in the lattice package.  I know how to do so using hist(), but would prefer
>> to stay within lattice.
>>
>> dt1 <- rnorm(100,0,1)
>>
>> hist(dt1, density=3, angle=45)
>>
>
> I get diagonal striping.
>
>
>>
>> library(lattice)
>> histogram(dt1,
>>              xlab = "Histogram of rnorm(0,1)",
>>              type = "count",
>>              breaks = 15,
>>              col = "grey")
>
>
> I seem to remember that the diagonal hatched fills were disabled or not
> brought over to lattice from base S graphics because they were thought to be
> causing cognitive distortions[1,2].

The actual reason it was not originally implemented is simply that
grid did not support it.  Of course, the "bad"-ness of hatching may
have been the reason grid doesn't support it, and why no one has
bothered to change the status quo in so many years.

-Deepayan

> You already seem to be able to specify
> the color of the fill, and it's easy to get alternating colored fills with
> col = c("grey","red") ,  so it's not entirely clear what your unsatisfied
> goals are.



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