[R] A variation on the bar plot

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Check out the back to back histogram here:
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=136


On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:58 PM, dxc13 <dxc13 at health.state.ny.us> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I cannot think of the technical name of this plot, but I want to create a
> plot with the data below that looks like two back-to-back horizontal bar
> plots.
> Ideally, there would be a vertical line in the center of the plot at zero,
> and on the right hand side would be 4 bars representing the values for 2007,
> and on the left side of the vertical line would be the corresponding values
> for 2005.  Even though values would be on the left side of the zero line, it
> doesn't mean they are negative, I just want to compare changes in time.
>
>>data
>  2005  2007
> 11.42 11.76
> 11.93 11.97
> 4.06   4.53
> 4.29   4.47
>
> Hope this is clear,
> Thanks in advance.
>
> dxc13
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