Erik Tollerud wrote:
> While going through and updating some scripts to use the new features
> that were recently added to hist(), I found myself very confused by
> the align keywords - I had to go and look at Manuel Metz's post a
> couple weeks ago to believe it wasn't a typo in the documentation...
> "center" and "edge" are exactly the opposite of what one would have
> thought (as he noted)... I've attached a diff of my proposed solution
> - accepting the old keywords for backwards-compatibility, but have the
> documentation only mention two keywords that make more sense ('left'
> and 'mid').
>
> I've added two other features as well - for some of the histograms I'm
> making, it makes sense to have plots that are cumulative from the left
> instead of the right - with this patch, that's allowed by passing in
> cumulative=-1 (or anything else that is less than 0 - True still
> operates the way it did before). To make this also easier from the
> perspective of how some might want the histogram to look, I've also
> added a 'right' option to the 'align' keyword.
>
> Hopefully these changes will now satisfy all possible uses that anyone
> can imagine for a histogram. :)
>
Hi Erik,
yup - the keywords are currently _very_ misleading. I guess the
original reason for these keywords was that they were just passed to the
bar/barh method. Now that hist() was updated I thought about
changing/adapting the align keyword, but didn't manage to get this in
before 0.98 was released :-( Your suggestions look good to me ...
Manuel
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