I'm with Stephen on that one, ggplot2 is one of the greatest graphics package i've ever used. Hadley, you are the man, thanks for providing this great package to the R community. By the way, your website is also nice and very informative.
Felipe D. Carrillo Supervisory Fishery Biologist Department of the Interior US Fish & Wildlife Service California, USA --- On Fri, 10/17/08, hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [R] ggplot2 scale relation free > To: "stephen sefick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "R Help" <r-help@r-project.org> > Date: Friday, October 17, 2008, 2:32 PM > Oh ok, then that will be definitely in there for the next > version > (which I'm aiming to release early November) > > Hadley > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:24 PM, stephen sefick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > no, no, I want to facet on a variable and then have > the plots stacked > > on top of each other with different scales. I have > grown quite fond > > of not having four different things on a plot all with > different > > scales- it is quite confusing. I may send you along > an example when I > > get to that point. I have about two weeks worth of > work yet before > > all of the insects are done. thank you for the offer. > > thanks agian > > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:19 PM, hadley wickham > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Stephen, > >> > >> Thanks for the kind words about ggplot2 :) > >> > >> The next version of ggplot2 will implement the > equivalent of scale > >> relation free - I've just finished writing the > bulk of the code and > >> now I'm getting all the edge cases working. > However, what you > >> describe sounds like you want multiple scales on a > single plot - and > >> that's not something that ggplot is likely to > ever support. However, > >> it's relatively easy to rescale the variables > yourself (provided you > >> have some consistent way of doing so), and if you > have a concrete > >> example I'd be happy to show you how. > >> > >> Hadley > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:12 PM, stephen sefick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I don't know if there is a way to use the > scale relation free argument > >>> in ggplot2 like in lattice. I have a feeling > that there is not, but I > >>> would like to make a plea for this feature. > It would be nice to be > >>> able to plot Total Inorganic Nitrogen Total > Phosphorus and the ratio > >>> of the two- the numbers on the axis are not > related, but the previous > >>> two are surely related to the last (this ratio > has been suggested to > >>> show nutrient limitation, but there is the > possibility that the > >>> concentrations of the two constituents are > high enough where the ratio > >>> is not that meaningful). Or maybe when > particulate organic carbon is > >>> related to macroinvertebrate density with > scales as divergent as 1mg/L > >>> to 1000insects/m^2 . The good parts about > base graphics are that you > >>> can do anything you want to even if it is > wrong, but I'm responsible > >>> for my actions or assumptions. ggplot is a > wonderful piece of > >>> software and most of its defaults are > wonderful, but this would be > >>> useful to me, anyway. Hadley thanks so much > for this wonderful piece > >>> of software. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Stephen Sefick > >>> Research Scientist > >>> Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy > >>> > >>> Let's not spend our time and resources > thinking about things that are > >>> so little or so large that all they really do > for us is puff us up and > >>> make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and > have not exhausted the > >>> annoying little problems of being mammals. > >>> > >>> > -K. Mullis > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> 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/ > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Stephen Sefick > > Research Scientist > > Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy > > > > Let's not spend our time and resources thinking > about things that are > > so little or so large that all they really do for us > is puff us up and > > make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not > exhausted the > > annoying little problems of being mammals. > > > > > -K. Mullis > > > > > > -- > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
