The fill patterns date back to when the main way to get quality graphs was using a pen plotter. Filling a rectangle with color using a pen plotter took a long time and often resulted a soggy hole in the paper, so the fill lines were preferred back then. Now with high resolution screens and printers it is easy to do the flood fill rather than the patterns.
You need to be careful with the fill patterns, they can end up causing moire effects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern) which can cause false impressions of movement or distortions of size. On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:56 PM, suse <meyfa...@uni-potsdam.de> wrote: > Is it possible to fill the boxes of a boxplot with filling patterns/texture > instead of colours? Or both mixed? (for example white, grey, left diagonal > striped, right diagonal striped) How can I do that? I searched here, but > didn't find an answer. > Thank you! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Fill-pattern-for-Boxplots-tp4639698.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
