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.
