[R] Bar widths in barplots don't change

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Mon Feb 5 17:52:17 CET 2001


On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 s-luppescu at uchicago.edu wrote:

> Is the width= parameter in barplot() supposed to work? I couldn't get it to
> work in my plot, and even in the example,
> 
> data(VADeaths, package = "base")
> barplot(VADeaths, width=rep(0.1, 4))
> 
> the plot looks identical regardless of what I put in for the width. I looked at
> the source for barplot() and it looks like it SHOULD work (but what do I know).

width= controls relative widths of bars. You probably want space=

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle
	

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