>>>>> Marc Schwartz writes:
> Greetings all,
> It would appear that some default behavior changes for barplot() have
> been introduced into Version 1.9.1 alpha (2004-05-30).
> One change is in the specification of the default 'col' argument, which
> is now:
> col: a vector of colors for the bars or bar components. By default, grey
> is used if height is a vector, and heat.colors(nrow(height)) if height
> is a matrix.
> 'col' now defaults to NULL, whereas up through 1.9.0-patched it
> defaulted to 'col = heat.colors(NR)'.
> I just completed the installation/upgrade of FC2 this weekend and
> thought initially there was a problem with FC2, until I
> compiled/re-installed a copy of '1.9.0-patched' and noted the old
> behavior.
> Can this change be noted in the NEWS file? I did not see it noted
> there, which contributed to my confusion until I reviewed the code and
> help file.
> Also, it would appear that the initial change in 1.9.0's barplot(),
> which caused some problems for folks relative to using the output of
> table() as the input for the 'height' argument, has been restored to the
> 1.8.1 behavior. The 1.9.0 change from 1.8.1 was reported in r-bugs
> #6776.
> It would appear from a code review that the initial checks of the
> 'height' argument in barplot() have been restructured in 1.9.1-alpha,
> restoring the 1.8.1 style behavior.
> Can this change also be documented in the NEWS file?
Mark,
Thanks for bringing this up. I have now changed NEWS to say
o The default barplot method now handles vectors and 1-d arrays
(e.g., obtained by table()) the same, and uses grey instead of
heat color palettes in these cases. (Also fixes PR#6776.)
It is not true that the 1.8.1 behavior has been restored. 1.8.1 treated
vectors and 1-d arrays differently, which after long discussions has
been decided to be a bug :-)
Best
-k
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