On 4/5/2007 1:41 PM, hadley wickham wrote:
> On 4/5/07, Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>>>> "hadley" == hadley wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >>>>> on Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:43:41 -0500 writes:
>>
>> hadley> Hi, I'm trying to track down any references for the
>> hadley> implementation of pretty (or grid.pretty) in R. Is
>> hadley> it original work?
>>
>> Much of it is. The original version, say R version 0.01, may
>> have been based on some reference, but we have added quite a few extra
>> tweaks,
>> where in my case I sat down with a piece of paper, considered
>> and transformed some inequalities and also did computer
>> experiments additionally.
>> I've even started to make more coherent notes eventually, but
>> not electronically, and hence no tech.report / publication / ...
>>
>> { Did you really want to know this :-) }
>
> Yes - that's great! And if you ever do put you notes in electronic
> format I'd love to see them. There's very little written on the
> subject of choosing good tick marks.
I wrote a little bit on this in a Chance column:
Murdoch, D.J. (2000). Drawing a scatterplot. {\em Chance} {\bf 13.3},
53--55.
Duncan Murdoch
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