R devel - Mar 2006 - Bug in barplot (PR#8738)

Hi

There seems to be a bug in barplot().  It occurs when specifying the
ylim argument.  It's best shown by example:

dat <- matrix(c(1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3),ncol=3)
barplot(dat, beside=TRUE)
X11()
barplot(dat, beside=TRUE, ylim=c(1,3))

As can be seem, drawing of the graph seems to discount the margins of
the plot.

I'm using R 2.2.1 on Windows

Thanks
Mick

It is not a bug: please read the help file

      xpd: logical. Should bars be allowed to go outside region?

and note that the default is TRUE.

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, michael.watson at bbsrc.ac.uk wrote:
> There seems to be a bug in barplot().  It occurs when specifying the
> ylim argument.  It's best shown by example:
>
> dat <- matrix(c(1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3),ncol=3)
> barplot(dat, beside=TRUE)
> X11()
> barplot(dat, beside=TRUE, ylim=c(1,3))
>
> As can be seem, drawing of the graph seems to discount the margins of
> the plot.
As documented.
> I'm using R 2.2.1 on Windows
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