On Thu, 22-May-2008 at 03:13PM -0700, AlGates wrote:
|> The one I rather need, is something like this (scan from a book): |> http://algates.de/Scan.jpg |> The only difference is the angle. That one is even stranger. There are two similar (but not parallel) lines for imports and another two similar (but again not parallel) lines for exports. I can't see if there is anything systematic about those small differences, and I suspect that there was meant to be none -- just drawn by someone who didn't have a 45 deg set-square. Years ago I inherited some SPlus code which did, in fact, draw a plot quite similar to that one (but without the inaccuracies). I remember it was quite lengthy and complicated, but I don't remember ever having an inclination to use it for anything since R has so many easier and better ways of visualizing data. During the process of changing computer systems several times in the intervening years, that code was something that went out with the old faded photos. Shame that. Excel might have an option to do one like the import-export example. If it does, it would be a lot easier than using R which has an altogether different set of values. If Excel doesn't do that type, and it's *really* important to have such a plot, I'd be using grid graphics which is almost infinitely flexible. Only trouble is, by the time you'd seen what you can do with grid, you'd likely find that you no longer felt any urge to make such a plot. best -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Middle minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Anon ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ 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.