Greg, I think you encapsulate my dilemma well. I could produce a graph using Excel in 5 minutes but they look so boring and lack precision.
A key benefit of R is the ability to produce quality customised graphs. I have the books by Tufte and Cleveland and perhaps there is a better way to portray these data. What I’m looking to do is to illustrate how several blocks of data change distribution relative to one another over time but in a less boring way. On 16 Jul 2014, at 16:30, Greg Snow <538...@gmail.com> wrote: > You ask: "Is there a way to produce good quality area graphs in R?" I > would modify that question a little and ask it back as: > > Is there a way to produce good quality area graphs? > > Consider the following: > >> library(fortunes) >> fortune(197) > > If anything, there should be a Law: Thou Shalt Not Even Think Of Producing A > Graph That Looks Like Anything From A Spreadsheet. > -- Ted Harding (in a discussion about producing graphics) > R-help (August 2007) > >> > > (also possibly fortune(266)) > > And also the books by Tufte and Cleveland. > > What information are you trying to convey/explore using area graphs? > There is probably a better tool or set of tools to use. > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Leask, Graham <g.le...@aston.ac.uk> wrote: >> Area graphs are a commonly used graphic in such software as Excel but I have >> been unable >> to find any examples of their use using R. >> >> Is there a way to produce good quality area graphs in R? If so I would >> greatly appreciate >> being directed to the relevant package or a code example. >> >> Any help will be greatly appreciated >> >> Graham >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > 538...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.
