Dear Antony, I think you have fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of graphics - they are not to be used to gain insight into your data, but to add excitement and interest to otherwise boring, text-filled pages ;)
Hadley On 9/27/07, Antony Unwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a good idea to spruce up the graphics on R's webpage, but before > we get too excited about improving how they are drawn, shouldn't we > think about improving what has been drawn? > > The original graphic showed off a wide variety of graphics which can > be drawn with R, all applied to the swiss fertility dataset. Are > these the kinds of graphics we would want to draw in a real > analysis? I think a single parallel coordinate plot is more > informative than this collection and would be easier to explain. If > you want to try it for yourself, use the package iplots with data > (swiss) and then ipcp(swiss). > > So maybe someone should suggest graphics from another dataset to > adorn the webpage and demonstrate R's graphics capabilities. > > Antony Unwin > Professor of Computer-Oriented Statistics and Data Analysis, > Mathematics Institute, > University of Augsburg, > > > [[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. > -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ 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.