My point is that you _still_ have not adhered to the Posting Guide request for sessionInfo() ... I say again. Please read the Posting Guide ... AND PLEASE STOP posting formatted email.
-- David. On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Nicole Ford wrote: > I did look at ??pie ??graphics, as per my reply. which netted nothing of > value. > > thanks. > ~Nicole Ford > Ph.D. student > Graduate Assistant/ Instructor > University of South Florida > Government and International Affairs > office: SOC 012M > e: nmhi...@mail.usf.edu > http://gia.usf.edu/student/nford/ > > > > > > > On Feb 25, 2013, at 12:38 PM, David Winsemius wrote: > >> >> On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Nicole Ford wrote: >> >>> hello, all. >>> >>> one of my students is having an issue with the pie & legend function. >>> >>> this is her code. (below) >>> >>> it works just fine for me. >>> >>> her error is "plot.new has not been called yet". i know this means her pie >>> chart is coming up blank so the legend will not work. >> >> So at that point, why not issue the command: >> >> plot.new() # ? >> >> Graphics problems can be very system specific. Follow-up should include a >> proper adherence to the Posting Guide advice about the necessary problem >> description. You should assist R help by first educating yourself and then >> giving your students proper training in how to construct questions for >> R-help. >> >>> >>> according to ?graphics this package *is* supposed to handle these >>> functionalities. however, when i tried to install it i get the following >>> error: >>> >>> Warning message: >>> package Œgraphics‚ is not available (for R version 2.15.2) >> >> The graphics package is part of the base installation. As far as I know you >> cannot reinstall it. You would instead need to reinstall R if you thought >> her installation if R was corrupt. >> >> -- >> David. >> >>> >>> however, the ?graphics page shows it is indeed available for this version >>> of R. >>> >>> >>> Package: graphics >>> Version: 2.15.2 >>> Priority: base >>> Title: The R Graphics Package >>> Author: R Core Team and contributors worldwide >>> Maintainer: R Core Team <r-c...@r-project.org> >>> Description: R functions for base graphics >>> Imports: grDevices >>> License: Part of R 2.15.2 >>> Built: R 2.15.2; ; 2012-10-26 16:14:39 UTC; unix >>> >>> thoughts are greatly appreciated. >>> >>> >>> >>>> strength <- factor(c(rep("8.0-9.9", 2), rep("7.0-7.9", 12), rep("6.0-6.9", >>>> 108))) >>>> plot(strength, xlab="Earthquake Strength", ylab="Frequency") >>>> histogram(strength, xlab="Earthquake Strength", ylab="Relative Frequency >>>> by Percentage") >>>> pie(table(strength)) >>> legend("topright", title="Earthquake Strength", cex=0.6, pch=16, >>> col=c("white", "blue", "red"), legend=c("6.0 to 6.9", "7.0 to 7.9", "8.0 to >>> 8.9"), ncol=3) >>> >> >> David Winsemius >> Alameda, CA, USA >> > David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA ______________________________________________ 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.
