I googled 'profile plots r' and came up with lots of links for this in R that 
might do what you need

Thank you

Bill Shannon, PhD, MBA

Professor of Biostatistics in Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
Director, Biostatistical Consulting Center

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From: Classification, clustering, and phylogeny estimation 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Art Kendall
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:12 AM
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Subject: Profile plots

Does any body know if there is free software to do profile plots?

Profile plots are special parallel coordinate plots used when all of the 
variables in the set are measured on the same scale, e.g., dollars, percents, 
percentiles, z-scores, T-scores, IQs, extent scales, Likert scales etc.
They are used to visualize  standardized test scores, cluster profiles, 
repeated measures (including time series),  points along the electromagnetic 
spectrum, EKGs, EEGs ,  ipsative scores, etc.

They are very much like  parallel coordinate plots. They have a set of parallel 
axes, but all of the scales are anchored at a common center  reference line 
perpendicular to the set of parallel axes.   E.g. 100 for IQs, 50 for  
percentiles, zero for standardized variables, neither disagree or agree for 
Likert scales, etc.  They may have additional reference lines at other points 
also, e.g, 0 and 100 for percents or percentiles, -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 for 
standardized scores, 55 70 85 115 130 145 for IQ's, etc.


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