I did find ?pie and saw the explanation as to why not to use pie charts. I may end up using it anyway, because the comparison is something like 94%,5%,1%, so the difficulty of the human eye to read area as opposed to length(as in a bar chart) doesn't make much difference in this case.
Thanks for the reply. Joshua Gramlich On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 16:33, Marc Schwartz wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joshua Gramlich > >Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 4:17 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [R] pie charts? > > > > > >I don't suppose it's possible to create a pie chart in R? > >I've got 1500 some odd elements in a frame that are valued at > >either -1, 0 or 1 and I'd like to find a reasonable way to > >represent the distribution graphically...any ideas? > > > > > >Joshua Gramlich > >Piocon Technologies > >Chicago, IL > > > You can. See ?pie. > > However, I believe the general disposition would be to not do so. > > You would probably be better off with either a bar chart (see ?barplot > in base R or ?barplot2 in the gregmisc package) or perhaps a Cleveland > dot plot (see ?dotchart in base R) depending upon what you might wish > to show. barplot2() has some additional features like plotting > confidence intervals if you wish to include these in your graphic. > > The reasoning behind this is covered in W.S. Cleveland's "Elements of > Graphing Data" on pages 262 - 264 in the section dealing with what he > calls "Pop Charts". > > Hope that helps, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
