Hi Barry,
Thanks so much for the Junk Charts link. Maybe it'll help me make my case
for why we shouldn't present our data like this.
Susanna
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Barry Rowlingson
b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote:
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Susanna Makela
susanna.m.mak...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello R users,
I would like to generate slanted stacked bar graphs like those on
the bottom of pages 1 and 2 in this document:
http://www.wssinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/resources/JMP-Snapshot-SWA-HLM.pdf
. I've also attached the file to this email (pdf). Does anyone know if
this is possible in R? I have tried googling and searching the R help
archives, and it seems like ggplot2 might be able to make such graphs,
but I'm not familiar enough with graphics in R to know for sure.
(I personally don't feel that these slanted bar graphs - not sure if
they have an actual name - convey the intended information very well,
but I have to try and make them all the same. However, I am open to
alternative suggestions for visualizing similar data if anyone has
ideas.)
These exact charts have been critiqued on the Junk Charts blog:
http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2010/02/cousin-misfit.html
and you'll even find some ggplot code in the comments for doing them.
If you still want to...
I just did a google image search for 'ggplot stacked' and there they were.
Barry
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