Sam Ferguson wrote: > Hi useRs - > > I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me where to find R-code > to do mixes of tables and graphics. I am thinking of something > similar to this: > http://yost.com/information-design/powerpoint-corrupts/ > or like the excel routines people are demonstrating: > http://infosthetics.com/archives/2006/08/excel_in_cell_graphing.html > > My aim is to provide small graphics to illustrate numbers directly > beside or behind their position in the table. Maybe there is a way to > do it with lattice? > > Thanks for any help you may be able to provide. > Sam Ferguson
The mixtures of tables and graphics we've produced are a bit different from the examples you gave but demonstrate the value of combining R and LaTeX. R can produce LaTeX code containing LaTeX picture environments, for example. That's how we put tiny high-resolution histograms inside tabular output showing descriptive statistics in the describe function and its latex method latex.describe in the Hmisc package. Charles Thomas Dupont is working on a more impressive graphic inside a table by adding tiny dot charts showing proportions and confidence limits for differences in probabilities to the output produced by the latex method for Hmisc's summary.formula function. An example of the first type may be found in http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/StatGraphCourse under "Mixing Text and Graphics" and we'll add an example of the second type soon. LaTeX offers another approach: tables (matrices) of graphics in the tabular environment. -- Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.
