Hi Ben, Indeed this is what i wanted, thanks. height does make more sense, I guess I was just reading the ggplot2 documentation directly, which still refers to width.
Brian On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Brian Tsai <btsai00 <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having problems using the 'width' aesthetic attribute for the > > geom_errorbarh. This is the same problem reported earlier here, but > I'll > > try to write the problem more clearly: > > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help <at> r-project.org/msg62371.html > > > > The problem I'm having is that, the 'width' attribute is supposed to set > the > > height of the endpoints of the whiskers, and respectively, the width of > the > > endpoints of the whiskers in geom_errorbar. > > > > The width attribute works fine in geom_errorbar (sets width of whiskers > > fine), but it has no effect in geom_errorbarh (height of whiskers is the > > same no matter what value). Does anyone else still have this problem? > > > > Looking at the answers in the previous thread, I think the commenters > are trying to answer your question but be missing the point. > > I assume you have horizontal errorbars that look like this > > |------*-------| > > and you want them to look like this: > > | | > |------*-------| > | | > > In this case, it would be the "height" aesthetic rather than the > "width" aesthetic that you would want to modify the length of the > end-caps on the bar. > > If this is *not* what you want, it would help if you could somehow > draw a picture of your desired graph (e.g. manipulate the graph you > have in an image editor, or use ASCII art as above) ... > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
