Horizontal Geom.bar not working

[xiaodaigh]

plot(x = ["a","b","c"], y= 1:3, Geom.bar(orientation = :horizontal))

this doesn't plot for me.

[Mattriks]

Does this work?:

p = plot(x=["a","b","c"], y=1:3, Geom.bar(orientation = :horizontal),
    Scale.x_discrete )

[xiaodaigh]

Yes. So that's a bug? Scale.x_discrete seems to be a good default in this case

[Mattriks]

See these lines: For a typical barplot, if the orientation=:vertical then I would expect that the y-axis is numerical, and if orientation=:horizontal, I would expect that the x-axis is numerical. But your x-axis isn't numerical: why is that btw?

[xiaodaigh]

It's a barplot so it's reasonable for xaxis to be categories, i.e. discrete

[Mattriks]

I'm not sure that Gadfly works the way you think (for horizontal bars).
In this plot, the x-axis is numerical:

p = plot(y=["a","b","c"], x=1:3, Geom.bar(orientation = :horizontal) )

[xiaodaigh]

ok this makes sense, so maybe need to update the doc. I might help with that