> 3. Depending on the nature of your data, if the extreme value is > representative of an important marked difference relative to the other > values, then I don't particularly find the 'look' of the plot to be > overly problematic. It does appropriately emphasize the large > difference. > > On the other hand, you might want to consider using a log scale on the y > axis as an alternative to an axis gap. This would be a reasonable > approach to plotting values that have a notable difference in range. If > you do this, note that you would need to ensure that all y values are >0 > (ie. y axis range minimum, lower bounds of CI's, etc.) since: > > > log10(0) > [1] -Inf > >
Of course, you can't do this with a bar plot, because bars should be anchored at 0. Hadley ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
