R help - Jun 2010 - r code to broaden the boarder of the bars of a histogram

To whom it may concern,

I have a problem concerning the design of a histogram. How do I change 
the border widths of the bars of a histogram. The initial command is:

hist (punkte,breaks=30, xlab="Punkte", ylab="H?ufigkeit", 
main="Histogramm", col= heat.colors(30), border= "red")

I suspect that it has to do with the "lwd" command but can't
figure it out.

Kind regards,
Andreas Baranowski



University of Klagenfurt
Universit?tsstra?e 65-67
9020 Klagenfurt
Austria

Hi

Look at the source code.

graphics:::plot.histogram

You can find that boxes are actually drawn by rect

So if you want to use standard graphics, you probably need to modify 
source code and set up your version of plot.histogram.

Maybe with ggplot2 package you can find some way how to do what you want 
but you shall check yourself.

Regards
Petr


r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 11.06.2010 15:09:21:
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> I have a problem concerning the design of a histogram. How do I change 
> the border widths of the bars of a histogram. The initial command is:
> 
> hist (punkte,breaks=30, xlab="Punkte",
ylab="H?ufigkeit",
> main="Histogramm", col= heat.colors(30), border= "red")
> 
> I suspect that it has to do with the "lwd" command but can't
figure it
out.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andreas Baranowski
> 
> 
> 
> University of Klagenfurt
> Universit?tsstra?e 65-67
> 9020 Klagenfurt
> Austria
> 
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Use truehist() in pkg:MASS.

   -Peter Ehlers

On 2010-06-11 7:09, Andreas Baranowski wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> I have a problem concerning the design of a histogram. How do I change
> the border widths of the bars of a histogram. The initial command is:
>
> hist (punkte,breaks=30, xlab="Punkte",
ylab="H?ufigkeit",
> main="Histogramm", col= heat.colors(30), border= "red")
>
> I suspect that it has to do with the "lwd" command but can't
figure it out.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andreas Baranowski
>
>
>
> University of Klagenfurt
> Universit?tsstra?e 65-67
> 9020 Klagenfurt
> Austria