Has anyone suggested mosaic displays? That's the closest I can think of as a "square pie chart"...
> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Naomi Robbins > Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 7:09 AM > To: Thomas Levine > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] squared "pie chart" - is there such a thing? > > I don't usually use stacked bar charts since it is difficult > to compare > lengths that don't have > a common baseline. > > Naomi > > On 7/23/2011 11:14 PM, Thomas Levine wrote: > > How about just a stacked bar plot? > > > > barplot(matrix(c(3,5,3),3,1),horiz=T,beside=F) > > > > Tom > > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Naomi > Robbins<nbrgra...@optonline.net> wrote: > >> Hello! > >> It's a shoot in the dark, but I'll try. If one has a total of 100 > >> (e.g., %), and three components of the total, e.g., > >> mytotal=data.frame(x=50,y=30,z=20), - one could build a > pie chart with > >> 3 sectors representing x, y, and z according to their > proportions in > >> the total. > >> I am wondering if it's possible to build something very > similar, but > >> not on a circle but in a square - such that the total area of the > >> square is the sum of the components and the components (x, > y, and z) > >> are represented on a square as shapes with right angles (squares, > >> rectangles, L-shapes, etc.). I realize there are many possible > >> positions and shapes - even for 3 components. But I don't > really care > >> where components are located within the square - as long > as they are > >> there. > >> > >> Is there a package that could do something like that? > >> Thanks a lot! > >> > >> ----- > >> > >> I included waffle charts in Creating More Effective Graphs. > >> The reaction was very negative; many readers let me know > >> that they didn't like them. To create them I just drew a table > >> in Word with 10 rows and 10 columns. Then I shaded the > >> backgrounds of cells so for your example we would shade > >> 50 cells one color, 30 another, and 20 a third color. > >> > >> Naomi > >> > >> ------------- > >> > >> > >> Naomi B. Robbins > >> 11 Christine Court > >> Wayne, NJ 07470 > >> 973-694-6009 > >> > >> na...@nbr-graphs.com<mailto:na...@nbr-graphs.com> > >> > >> http://www.nbr-graphs.com > >> > >> Author of Creating More Effective Graphs > >> <http://www.nbr-graphs.com/bookframe.html> > >> > >> // > >> > >> > >> > >> [[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. > > > > > -- > > -- > > Naomi B. Robbins > > NBR > > 11 Christine Court > > Wayne, NJ 07470 > > Phone: (973) 694-6009 > > na...@nbr-graphs.com <mailto:na...@nbr-graphs.com> > > http://www.nbr-graphs.com <http://www.nbr-graphs.com/> > > Follow me at http://www.twitter.com/nbrgraphs > > Author of /Creating More Effective Graphs > <http://www.nbr-graphs.com/bookframe.html>/ > > > [[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. > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachme...{{dropped:11}} ______________________________________________ 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.
