Message-ID: <43FC711D.2090202@pdf.com>
Date: 2006-02-22T14:11:41Z
From: Sundar Dorai-Raj
Subject: issue with plot (type="h")
In-Reply-To: <C437AF9075F4E84E86D34CDA5252B8EB0B9A64@intra2003.ric.si>
Gasper Cankar wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> For reasons too long to explain I wanted to do plots similar to histograms with plot(type="h").
> I ran into a problem - if I set line width too high, histogram isn't accurate anymore.
>
> For example:
>
> par(lend=2)
> plot(c(2,4,3,2),ylim=c(0,5), type="h")
> abline(h=3)
>
> Column 3 appears just as high as it should. But if I do
>
> par(lend=2)
> plot(c(2,4,3,2),ylim=c(0,5), type="h",lwd=100)
> abline(h=3)
>
> then columns become too high. Can I correct the problem or is there another way to display my data correctly?
>
Try ?barplot instead:
bp <- barplot(c(2, 4, 3, 2), ylim = c(0, 5))
axis(side = 1, at = bp, labels = 1:4)
abline(h = 3)
box()
--sundar