Hi: This isn't hard to do with ggplot2. Here's a toy example:
d <- data.frame(gp = LETTERS[1:4], frq = c(10, 25, 30, 20)) library(ggplot2) # The fill aesthetic colors the bars, the colour aesthetic does the same for the borders. # (1) Same color for both, use alpha transparency: ggplot(d, aes(x = gp, y = frq)) + geom_bar(fill = 'blue', colour = 'blue', alpha = 0.2) # (2) Use related colors (and throw in a white background): ggplot(d, aes(x = gp, y = frq)) + geom_bar(fill = 'blue', colour = 'navyblue', alpha = 0.2) + theme_bw() # (3) Use different colors: ggplot(d, aes(x = gp, y = frq)) + geom_bar(fill = 'lavender', colour = 'navyblue') + theme_bw() # (4) Map fill and border colors to values of gp: ggplot(d, aes(x = gp, y = frq)) + geom_bar(aes(fill = gp, colour = gp), alpha = 0.3) + theme_bw() # (4a) To get rid of the crossbar in the legend, add last_plot() + scale_colour_discrete(legend = FALSE) HTH, Dennis PS: I would have preferred to send this to the OP rather than the respondent, but he didn't cc the original message, so... On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Jannis <bt_jan...@yahoo.de> wrote: > The easiest solution may be using par(new=TRUE) and to overlay a coloured > barplot with a separate shaded barplot.... > > > HTH > Jannis > On 02/19/2011 10:58 PM, Markus Loecher wrote: > >> Dear all, >> might there be a modified barplot function out there which allows the user >> to specify a fill color for the bars and independent parameters for the >> overlaid shading lines ? >> Currently, when I specify density and col, the fill color for the bars is >> white. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Markus >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.