Re: Bar chart style with ListPlot
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- Subject: [mg110468] Re: Bar chart style with ListPlot
- From: "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:43:59 -0400 (EDT)
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Michael,
How about this:
ListPlot[Prime[Range[25]], Filling -> Axis,
FillingStyle -> {Thickness[0.03]}, ImageSize -> 500, Axes -> None,
Frame -> True]
Not a beauty, but it does what you ask for.
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Jun 19, 1:50 pm, "Michael A. Gilchrist" <mi... at utk.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working with some discrete probability functions and plotting them using
> ListPlot. Given the nature of the function, I believe its clearest to
> represent the values using bars rather than points. I know there's a BarChart
> function, but it isn't as easy to use (e.g. you can't just give it a list of
> x, y coordinates and you can't easily have overlaying datasets, they sit next
> to each other).
>
> I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this problem and/or has any
> suggestions on how to solve it. For example, are there options I can set that
> will give me the desired behavior?
>
> Thanks for your time in this matter,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mike