On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:29:38PM -0500, hadley wickham wrote: > Please read this first: > http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/dual-scaled_axes.pdf
Thanks for this pointer, interesting read. As an additional alternative to dual scales, le'ts not forget about scatterplots, which I didn't see mentioned in that paper -- frequently, when you're stuck because you can't dispense with either y-axis, it's easy to forget the option to do without your current x-axis... ;-) Best regards, Jan > It's a reasoned discussion of why it's a bad idea and proposes some > alternative methods. > > Another good article is: > K. W. Haemer. Double scales are dangerous. The American Statistician, > 2(3):24?24, 1948. > > People have been advising dual-axis plots for (at least) 60 years! > > Hadley > > -- > 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. -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | WWW: http://www.cmp.uea.ac.uk/people/jtk | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----* ______________________________________________ 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.
