On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Ben Bolker wrote: > Tim Churches <tchur <at> optushome.com.au> writes: > > > > > A recent paper from Google Labs, interesting in many respects, not the > > least the exclusive use of R for data analysis and graphics (alas not > > cited in the approved manner): > > > > http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf > > > > Perhaps some of the eminences grises of the R Foundation could prevail > > upon Google to make some the data reported in the paper available for > > inclusion in an R library or two, for pedagogical purposes? > > > > Tim C > > > > After skimming the paper, I can't help wondering why > they used barplots with error bars instead of boxplots, > and why they broke the data into discrete age groups? > Given that they had a relatively large data set > (several percent of >100,000 disk drives), they could > have done some cool visualization stuff ...
For example Mondrian via RServe? > > Ben Bolker > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ 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.