Quoting Greg Snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My original intent was to get the original posters out of the mode of > thinking they want to match what the spreadsheet does and into thinking > about what message they are trying to get across. To get them (and > possibly others) thinking I made the statements a bit more bold than my > actual position (I did include a couple of qualifiers).
As an original poster (and a brand new user of R), I would like to comment on the educational experience I have just received. ;) The discussion was interesting and enlightening, and gives some good ideas about the ways (tables, graphs, graphs with numbers etc.) to get the data accross to the ones one is presenting to. I see some of you guys do feel quite strongly about it, which is fine for me. I do not. I usually care for barplot aesthetics and informativeness more than for visual simplicity. That may change in time :) I see R graphical capabilities are huge but hard to access at times - that is when spreadsheet seems preferrable. For example, as a user of Linux I still cannot figure out why the fonts (and graphics in general) look much more ugly on R in Linux than they do in R on Windows - no smoothing, sub-pixell hinting, anything like that. That is what my next free time homework on R will be about :) Sincerely Donatas Glodenis PhD candidate Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy Vilnius University Lithuania ______________________________________________ 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.