I think the fact that the grid package does not support cross-hatching is a feature not a bug (or deficiency), and I hope that this is not "fixed". Tufte's book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information) has a section on why cross-hatching should be avoided (unless of course your goal is to induce nausea in the observer rather than convey information).
I would edit Hadley's statement below to say "fortunately there's no way to do this in ggplot2". -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of hadley wickham > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:55 AM > To: stephen sefick > Cc: R-help > Subject: Re: [R] Bar Plot ggplot2 Filling bars with cross hatching > > Hi Stephen, > > > #I am putting a test together for an introductory biology class and I > > would like to put different cross hatching inside of each bar for the > > bar plot below > > ggplot2 uses the grid package to do all the drawing, and currently > grid doesn't support cross-hatching, so unfortunately there's no way > to do this in ggplot2. > > Regards, > > Hadley > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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.