Johannes Hüsing <hannes <at> ruhrau.de> writes: > > > The pro's and con's of using "scale breaks" were discussed by > > Cleveland (1985) The Elements of Graphing Data (Wadsworth, pp. 85-91, > > 149). I don't know what Cleveland said about this is the second edition > > Spencer Graves: > > but I believe there are times when scale breaks are > > appropriate, but the display should make this nonstandard transition > > very clear; > > ... in which case you are close to having two graphs > sharing an x-axis and therefore saving on ink (yay!). > > ______________________________________________ > R-help <at> 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. > >
This is an interesting visual interpretation issue: it may be possible to shade the y-axis (which his thick like the top bars in Lattice plots), or shade the main graphing area from dark to light (or two shades, for two scales) to give a visual idea about the "density" or "stretch" of the space/scale on which the points are plotted. There is problems with this as well (interpretation of scale), but sometimes it may provide a better and quick visual communication. Is this possible in R? ______________________________________________ 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.