Andy, Mosaic plots were suggested by Sarah Goslee on July 21st. Unfortunately, I broke the chain of messages when I was away from home, in a rush and didn't know how to respond to messages from a digest.
Naomi -- 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>/ On 7/25/2011 11:28 AM, Liaw, Andy wrote: > 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 attach...{{dropped:20}} ______________________________________________ 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.
