From paul@stat.auckland.ac.nz  Mon Dec 13 00:14:29 1999
From: paul@stat.auckland.ac.nz (Paul Murrell)
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:14:29 +1300
Subject: hist() with horiz=TRUE does not give horiz. plots (PR#372)
References: <199912112327.AAA25519@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <00f101bf44ff$06bdbb30$175dd882@stat.auckland.ac.nz>

hi


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Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 12:27 PM
Subject: hist() with horiz=TRUE does not give horiz. plots (PR#372)


> Full_Name: Fran Rizzardi
> Version: 0.90.0
> OS: Solaris, NT 4.0
> Submission from: (NULL) (128.32.135.223)
>
>
> If you use the horiz= option with hist() you get the message:
>
> Warning:
> parameter "horiz" couldn't be set in high-level plot() function.
>
> and the plot comes out vertical.  The documentation says this option comes
from
>
> barplot() and it does work correctly in barplot().
>
> This message comes whether horiz= is set to FALSE or TRUE.


The warning message you are getting is just telling you that "horiz" is not
a valid argument to hist() (and that it is not a valid par() either).
"horiz" is quite specific to barplot().

what was the documentation that lead you to try "horiz" with hist() ?

paul

p.s.  you can "fake" a horizontal histogram using barplot.  for example, try
...

x<-rnorm(20)
par(mfrow=c(1,2), pty="s")
hist.info <- hist(x, breaks=-3:3)
barplot(hist.info$counts, space=0, horiz=T)
axis(2, labels=-3:3)

... but perhaps you would prefer it if we made it so that you could use
"horiz" with hist() ?


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hist() with horiz=TRUE does not give horiz. plots (PR#372)
Paul Murrell