Jim, After learning that you could produce translucent 3d pie charts in excel.
Hadley On 9/27/07, Jim Porzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- 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.
