This is called a squarified pie chart or a waffle chart (if you want to keep the food metaphor going): http://eagereyes.org/communication/Engaging-readers-with-square-pie-waffle-charts.html
Hadley On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Dimitri Liakhovitski <dimitri.liakhovit...@gmail.com> 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! > > -- > Dimitri Liakhovitski > marketfusionanalytics.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. > -- Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair Department of Statistics / Rice University 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.