Hi Deepayan,
On 10/27/06, Deepayan Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 10/26/06, Geoff Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dear UseRs,
> >
> > I'm having trouble drawing a barchart with 2 quantities in different
> units
> > as follows with
> > one unit on the top axis and the other unit on the bottom. E.g.,
> >
> > x Tonnes | .
> > . .
> >
> > Row 1 Tonnes1 | xxxxxxxxxx
> > Row 1 Litres1 | yyyyyyy
> >
> > Row 2 Tonnes1 | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Row 2 Litres1 | yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
> >
> > y Litres | .
>
> So if I read this right, the relative heights of the xxx bars and the
> yyy bars, which you have placed side by side, are in different units
> and thus their comparison is meaningless. It's doable, but do you
> really want this sort of graph? A better and much easier to implement
> design seems to be something like
Yes, that is better than what I had in mind, and it will scale when I
get the data for the other columns I have in mind. Sample data is
below.
+-------------------------+---------------------+
> Row 1 | xxxxxxxxxx | yyyyyyy |
> Row 2 | xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy |
> +-------------------------+---------------------+
> Tonnes1 Litres1
>
> > Can anybody provide an example please?
>
> Please provide some example data (the form of which will matter).
>
> -Deepayan
Many thanks.
Geoff.
csv data,
"Area '000 ha", "Volume '000 ML"
"Pastures for Grazing" , 710 , 2826.9
"Pastures for Seed" , 32 , 139
"Pastures for hay/silage" , 162 , 683
"Cereal crops for hay" , 66 , 246
"Cereal crops for grain/seed" , 365 , 1002
"Cereal crops not for grain/seed" , 42 , 127
"Rice" , 44 , 615
"Sugar Cane" , 238 , 1293
"Cotton" , 234 , 1525
"Other broadacre crops" , 68 , 172
"Fruit Trees, nuts, plantations/fruits", 138 , 660
"Vegetables for human use" , 112 , 439
"Vegetables for seed" , 4 , 8.4
"Nurseries/flowers/turf" , 13 , 77.9
"Grapevines" , 150 , 588
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