Proposed mods to barplot.default() and legend().

Hi Rolf,

"RT" == Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
    on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:27:33 +1300 writes:

    RT> Recently I had occasion to make some mods to
    RT> barplot.default(), the main one being the introduction
    RT> of a crosshatching facility.  I made some related mods
    RT> to legend() so that the crosshatching could be
    RT> accommodated in the legend.  I also made some other
    RT> adjustments to remedy what seemed to me to be
    RT> unsatisfactory characteristics of the shading that the
    RT> fill-boxes in legends sometimes evinced.

    RT> It seemed to me that others might want the crosshatching
    RT> facility also, so I thought I might send in my modified
    RT> versions of barplot.default() and legend() to R Core for
    RT> their consideration.

    RT> Would this be a good idea?
    RT> How should I go about this?
could well be ..

    RT> Would it be appropriate just to send my code (and
    RT> documentation) to you?

I think you should post it to R-devel as a proposal.
It's fine if you ask for feedback from R-core directly, and in
the end, it will always need a "champion" within R-core who
takes up the responsibility to adopt and test and ... your
proposal.

Really, for me to look at it closely, I'd like (hopefully small)
patches against R-devel, i.e., against the *source* files (not the  
print() of
the function) in
    https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/graphics/R/...
If you don't use svn / subversion easily, I'd recommend to use the
files in one of the snapshots
at ftp://stat.ethz.ch/R/


Regards,
Martin