Hmmno... The labels on a stem-and-leaf plots are the values. This is just the 
measurement number: Observations #2,5,6,9 from level 1 had a temperature 
between 89 and 90, making up the penultimate column of that histogram.

I would conjecture that, like stem-and-leaf, this has fallen out of favour 
because it doesn't scale well to larger samples. It is fine with 64 
observations like this, but with (say) four times as many boxes, you'd lose all 
legibility.

-pd 

> On 22 Jun 2017, at 06:16 , Bert Gunter <bgunter.4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ?stem
> 
> for something close and built in.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bert
> 
> 
> Bert Gunter
> 
> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> and sticking things into it."
> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 9:01 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
>> 
>> 
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