On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:10 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Jun 13, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Powell, Jeff wrote: > >> >> Dear all, >> >> I would like to change the "fill" pattern of a histogram using histogram() >> in the lattice package. I know how to do so using hist(), but would prefer >> to stay within lattice. >> >> dt1 <- rnorm(100,0,1) >> >> hist(dt1, density=3, angle=45) >> > > I get diagonal striping. > > >> >> library(lattice) >> histogram(dt1, >> xlab = "Histogram of rnorm(0,1)", >> type = "count", >> breaks = 15, >> col = "grey") > > > I seem to remember that the diagonal hatched fills were disabled or not > brought over to lattice from base S graphics because they were thought to be > causing cognitive distortions[1,2].
The actual reason it was not originally implemented is simply that grid did not support it. Of course, the "bad"-ness of hatching may have been the reason grid doesn't support it, and why no one has bothered to change the status quo in so many years. -Deepayan > You already seem to be able to specify > the color of the fill, and it's easy to get alternating colored fills with > col = c("grey","red") , so it's not entirely clear what your unsatisfied > goals are. > > -- > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > 1] > http://markmail.org/message/pmrrpjynrcnrwhg5?q=list:org%2Er-project%2Er-help+lattice+hatching > 2] > http://markmail.org/message/cj23tnsgsobs4mbu?q=list:org%2Er-project%2Er-help+lattice+hatching > > > ______________________________________________ > 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.