When barplots start getting complicated (and sometimes before that) you
may want to start considering dotplots (package lattice) instead.
For your specific problem you could possibly do the side-by-side plot,
then using the output from barplot and the rect function you could plot
a rectangle over the top of part of the on bar (or set of bars) to do
the stacked portion.
-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at intermountainmail.org
(801) 408-8111
 
 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of sloan jones
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 7:07 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] graphing dilemna
> 
> I want to create a graph that combines both stacked and 
> side-by-side bars, is this possible? 
> 
> If more information is need:  I have five age categories 
> which are further divided by gender (the male and female bars 
> lie side by side and then all the age groups are side by 
> side). I want to further divide just the youngest category 
> into two smaller age groups and retain the sex division -- 
> stack the ages but have the sexes side by side. 
> 
> Help!
> Sloan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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