From r.turner at auckland.ac.nz  Sun Jan 18 22:18:46 2009
From: r.turner at auckland.ac.nz (Rolf Turner)
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:18:46 +1300
Subject: [Rd] Proposed mods to barplot.default() and legend().
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On 16/01/2009, at 10:07 PM, Martin Maechler wrote:

> Hi Rolf,
>
>>>>>> "RT" == Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
>>>>>>     on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:27:33 +1300 writes:
>
>     RT> Recently I had occasion to make some mods to
>     RT> barplot.default(), the main one being the introduction
>     RT> of a crosshatching facility.  I made some related mods
>     RT> to legend() so that the crosshatching could be
>     RT> accommodated in the legend.  I also made some other
>     RT> adjustments to remedy what seemed to me to be
>     RT> unsatisfactory characteristics of the shading that the
>     RT> fill-boxes in legends sometimes evinced.
>
>     RT> It seemed to me that others might want the crosshatching
>     RT> facility also, so I thought I might send in my modified
>     RT> versions of barplot.default() and legend() to R Core for
>     RT> their consideration.
>
>     RT> Would this be a good idea?
>     RT> How should I go about this?
> could well be ..
>
>     RT> Would it be appropriate just to send my code (and
>     RT> documentation) to you?
>
> I think you should post it to R-devel as a proposal.
> It's fine if you ask for feedback from R-core directly, and in
> the end, it will always need a "champion" within R-core who
> takes up the responsibility to adopt and test and ... your
> proposal.
>
> Really, for me to look at it closely, I'd like (hopefully small)
> patches against R-devel, i.e., against the *source* files (not the  
> print() of
> the function) in
>     https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/graphics/R/...
> If you don't use svn / subversion easily, I'd recommend to use the
> files in one of the snapshots
> at ftp://stat.ethz.ch/R/
>
>
> Regards,
> Martin

I have attached a tar file containing my modified code for barplot  
and legend,
and the correspondingly modified help files --- for your  
consideration and delectation. :-)

The mods were duly done unto the source files.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner


  
   
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[Rd] Proposed mods to barplot.default() and legend().
Rolf Turner