On Jul 22, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Gregory Gilbert wrote:

R Community,

I have a stupid little barplot I am trying to construct (Windows XP, R.11.1, 32-bit). Whenever I run it my bars run below the horizontal axis. Can anyone
(1) reproduce this and (2) offer a solution?

I'm not sure I should be offering this, as I consider this practice to be graphical prevarication and statistically unethical, but ...

?barplot

<read help page> .... so, add ", xpd=FALSE,"

--
David.

Rather simplistic code follows
(I am new to the community)> Thanks for your help!

Greg Gilbert

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options(repos="http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/";)
install.packages("plotrix", dependencies=TRUE)
update.packages()
require(plotrix)

##        DATA
##    April September
##  1  46.6      50.0
##  2  43.3      53.3

w <- read.csv("C:/Documents and
Settings/vhachagilbeg/Desktop/pope/women.csv",
              header=TRUE)

attach(w)
names(w)
w

barplot(as.matrix(w),
       ylab="Percentage", ylim=c(40, 55), yaxt="n",
       beside=TRUE, col=(rainbow(2)))

text(x=1.5,y=48, "46.6%")
text(x=2.5,y=44.3, "43.3%")
text(x=4.5,y=51, "50.0%")
text(x=5.5,y=54.3, "53.3%")

box()

axis(2, at=c(40, 45, 50, 55), labels=c("0", "45", "50", "55"))

axis.break(2, 41)

legend(1.5, 52.5, c("Mammograms", "Pap Smears"), bty="n",
       fill=(rainbow(2)))
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