Hadley, When did you switch to the Marketing MBA program?
- Jim On 9/27/07, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Antony, > > I think you have fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of graphics - > they are not to be used to gain insight into your data, but to add > excitement and interest to otherwise boring, text-filled pages ;) > > Hadley > > On 9/27/07, Antony Unwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a good idea to spruce up the graphics on R's webpage, but before > > we get too excited about improving how they are drawn, shouldn't we > > think about improving what has been drawn? > > > > The original graphic showed off a wide variety of graphics which can > > be drawn with R, all applied to the swiss fertility dataset. Are > > these the kinds of graphics we would want to draw in a real > > analysis? I think a single parallel coordinate plot is more > > informative than this collection and would be easier to explain. If > > you want to try it for yourself, use the package iplots with data > > (swiss) and then ipcp(swiss). > > > > So maybe someone should suggest graphics from another dataset to > > adorn the webpage and demonstrate R's graphics capabilities. > > > > Antony Unwin > > Professor of Computer-Oriented Statistics and Data Analysis, > > Mathematics Institute, > > University of Augsburg, > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > -- > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
