[R] barplot with chopped bars

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Tue Sep 22 23:42:06 CEST 2009


I think you might be looking for a Gantt chart:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/plotrix/html/gantt.chart.html

On Sep 22, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Lars Skjærven wrote:

> Dear R users,
> I want to make a barplot with bars that can be non-continuous. An  
> example
> will be the presence and absence of some events over time, e.g. a  
> bunch of
> people that are either in the office or not in the office, for some  
> period
> of time. I want to visualize this in a bar plot like this:
>
> Person 1: *********             ********     *******
> Person 2:       *********     *****   **********
> Person 3:   **************     ***********
>
> Any tips on how this can be done?
-- 

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT




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