On 9/25/07, Chris Stubben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hadley wickham <h.wickham <at> 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 a graphic > > that your viewers can take in with a glance? > > > > 3d barplots are a common way to display sensitvity/elasticity matrices in > stage-structured demography. Here's a few other options from Caswell's Matrix > population models book (2001) - I definitely prefer 3d barcharts to these > alternatives. > > > heatmap(log10(A[3:1,]), Rowv = NA, Colv = NA, scale="none") > > plot(log10(c(A)), type="s")
Both of those look like equally awful alternatives. Perhaps you could explain more about your data (perhaps with a sample?) so that we could suggest better alternatives. Hadley ______________________________________________ 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.
