I find them helpful for displaying the differences in coupled biomarkers between therapies with different therapeutic targets. You can quickly see/show which marker is affected quicker and then the other compensating in response and how they can be reversed depending on target. Having each measure on its own actual scale and not having to do something like percent change over time is very helpful (for many biomarkers it's hard to judge the clinical relavence of scaled values).
I believe in looking at the data in numerous ways, to help myself from confusing or misleading myself--which is not my intent. --Matt Austin Statistician, Amgen Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hadley wickham Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 10:14 AM To: Frank E Harrell Jr Cc: R-help Subject: Re: [R] Graphics and LaTeX documents with the same font > Yes there is harm. But to make bold lines, easy to read titles is fine. > See the spar function in > http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SgraphicsHints for a starter. Also see > the setps, ps.slide, and setpdf functions in the Hmisc package. I was interested to see that you have code for drawing scatterplots with multiple y-axes. As far as I know the only legitimate use for a double-axis plot is to confuse or mislead the reader (and this is not a very ethical use case). Perhaps you have a counter-example? 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
