Josh, Thanks for looking into this further. Picking up on your hint I tried to coerce the xlim values as well:
barplot(coldat,horiz=TRUE,axes=FALSE,xlim=c(as.numeric(strptime(well.80.2$date[1],"%m/%d/%Y %H:%M")),as.numeric(strptime(well.80.2$date[length(well.80.2$date)],"%m/%d/%Y %H:%M"))),ylim=ylim,col=8,space=0) It doesn't complain at this point, but it doesn't appear to do anything either. Hopefully someone else will spot the problem. Eric -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/barplot-invalid-xlim-value-tp2217919p2218029.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.