On 11-08-04 8:20 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
     on Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:51:38 -0400 writes:

     >  On 11-08-02 2:39 PM, wwreith wrote:
     >>  Does anyone know how to create a 3D Bargraph using
     >>  ggplot2/qplot. I don't mean 3D as in x,y,z coordinates. Just a
     >>  2D bar graph with a 3D shaped bard.  See attached excel file
     >>  for an example.
     >>
     >>  Before anyone asks I know that 3D looking bars don't add
     >>  anything except "prettiness".

     >  If you want graphs like that, you should be using Excel, not R.

Yes!!

10th commandment of R: You shall not misuse R!

I admit that the commandment partly motivated my message, but this was also advice to William: Excel is designed to produce those things, R is not, so it is an inefficient use of his time to try to produce them in R.

Duncan Murdoch

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