On 04/13/2010 06:07 AM, Peter Jepsen wrote:
Dear R-listers
I am writing a manuscript for a scientific journal in clinical medicine.
I have three groups of patients, and I present a 10*3 table of their
characteristics in Table 1. Some of their characteristics, e.g. their
age, are on a continuous scale, others are dichotomous. I am thinking of
presenting the age distribution in each group as miniature graphs, each
of which must fit in one table cell. I am hoping that someone can answer
these questions:
1. Has anybody ever seen something like this published anywhere?
2. Should I draw the entire table as a figure, or should I make a table
in Word (or similar) and manually insert the graphs in their cells?
3. Are there R packages that can "draw tables"?
4. And one for you editors out there: Would such a table count as one
figure, several figures, or a table?!
Forgive me for being somewhat off-topic. I hope for your help anyway.
Hi Peter,
This sounds like Edward Tufte's "sparklines" and I think there was a
discussion of this sort of graphic a couple of years ago. Yep, see:
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02/archive/76508.html
Jim
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