Re: [R] 3d barplot in rgl

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Stubben
>Transition matrices are Markov transition matrices among different > life stages of organisms -- in the simplest case (Leslie matrices, Ben, Thanks for your clear explanation and plot examples. I like the dotplots alot and added a few modifications below. Since I often compare rows and col

Re: [R] 3d barplot in rgl

2007-09-25 Thread bbolker
hadley wrote: > > On 9/25/07, Chris Stubben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hadley wickham gmail.com> writes: >> >> > >> > Why do you want a 3d barchart? They are generally a bad way to >> > present information as tall bars can obscure short bars, and it is >> > hard to accurately read off the

Re: [R] 3d barplot in rgl

2007-09-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 9/25/2007 3:13 PM, Chris Stubben wrote: > Duncan Murdoch stats.uwo.ca> writes: > > >> That demo gives you the basics of the code, so it shouldn't be too hard >> to put your own together: just strip out the counting part. >> > > > Thanks, I did download the source to check the hist3d demo

Re: [R] 3d barplot in rgl

2007-09-25 Thread hadley wickham
On 9/25/07, Chris Stubben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hadley wickham gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Why do you want a 3d barchart? They are generally a bad way to > > present information as tall bars can obscure short bars, and it is > > hard to accurately read off the height of a bar. While addi

Re: [R] 3d barplot in rgl

2007-09-25 Thread Chris Stubben
Duncan Murdoch stats.uwo.ca> writes: > That demo gives you the basics of the code, so it shouldn't be too hard > to put your own together: just strip out the counting part. > Thanks, I did download the source to check the hist3d demo, but honestly it didn't look very easy to simplify. I sw

Re: [R] 3d barplot in rgl

2007-09-25 Thread Chris Stubben
hadley wickham gmail.com> writes: > > Why do you want a 3d barchart? They are generally a bad way to > present information as tall bars can obscure short bars, and it is > hard to accurately read off the height of a bar. While adding > rotation can reduce some of these problems, why not create

Re: [R] 3d barplot in rgl

2007-09-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 9/25/2007 2:34 PM, stubben wrote: > Is there anyway to plot a matrix using a 3d bar plot. Something like > bar3 in matlab? > > The example in demo hist3d does a 3d barplot for binned data, but has > anyone tried something for a simple matrix with spaces betwen bars > and axis labels using ma

Re: [R] 3d barplot in rgl

2007-09-25 Thread hadley wickham
Why do you want a 3d barchart? They are generally a bad way to present information as tall bars can obscure short bars, and it is hard to accurately read off the height of a bar. While adding rotation can reduce some of these problems, why not create a graphic that your viewers can take in with a

[R] 3d barplot in rgl

2007-09-25 Thread stubben
Is there anyway to plot a matrix using a 3d bar plot. Something like bar3 in matlab? The example in demo hist3d does a 3d barplot for binned data, but has anyone tried something for a simple matrix with spaces betwen bars and axis labels using matrix dimnames or 1,2,3? stages<-letters[1:3] A