negative values on bar charts

[eliav schmulewitz]

Hi
what format is your data in?
eliav

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Sytske Kimball <SKimball at usouthal.edu>wrote:

>  All,
>
> I am trying to plot a bar chart that has both positive and negative values
> (the difference between 2 rain gauges
> at a certain site). So I set my y-axis range from -5 to +5 and hoped to see
> bars originating at the zero line and
> going up or down depending on whether the rain difference is positive or
> negative, respectively. But that didn't
> happen. All bars originated at the -5 line and stopped at whatever negative
> or positive value was assigned to them.
> Any ideas how I could change this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sytske
>
>
>
>
> Sytske Kimball
> Associate Professor of Meteorology
> Dept. of Earth Sciences
> University of South Alabama
> Mobile, AL
> phone (251) 460-7031
>        or (251) 445-4294
> fax       (251) 460-7886
> email   skimball at usouthal.edu
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>
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