> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:38:51 -0600, Roger Koenker wrote: > > Howard Wainer (Graphical Discovery, PUP, 2005, p 20) gives > this dubious honor to Playfair (1759- 1823). Nightingale (1820- > 1910) was far too enlightened for this sort of thing, see for example > her letter to Galton about endowing an Oxford professorship > in social statistics (reprinted in Karl Pearson's bio of Galton: > > >http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/search/pearson/vol2/pages/vol2_0482.htm > > It sets a very ambitious agenda that we have not yet made much > progress on...
So, if the pie chart was invented by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), then William Playfair (1759-1823) would be guilty of what the surrealists called a "plagiarism by anticipation". Best, -- Jean R. Lobry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - LYON I, 43 Bd 11/11/1918, F-69622 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX, FRANCE allo : +33 472 43 27 56 fax : +33 472 43 13 88 http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/ ______________________________________________ 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.
