and I almost forgot Derek Ogle's histStack again in the plotrix package. Jim
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:01 PM, S Ellison <s.elli...@lgcgroup.com> wrote: > > I'm looking for a histogram variant in which data points are plotted as > labelled rectangles 'piled up' to form a histogram. I've posted an example at > https://www.dropbox.com/s/ozi8bhdn5kqaufm/labelled_histogram.png?dl=0 > > It seems to have a long pedigree, as I see it (as in this example) in > documents going back beyond the '80s. But I've not seen it in recent > textbooks. So it may be one of those older graphical displays that's just > fallen out of use. > > General questions: > i) Does this thing have a name? > ii) Can anyone point me to a literature source for it? > > ... and the R question: > ii) Is it already hiding somewhere in an R package?* > > S Ellison > > *If it's not, I'll be adding it to one, hence the hunt for due credit/sources > > > > ******************************************************************* > This email and any attachments are confidential. Any u...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.