i am trying to make 3-d barplots,pie-charts in R,just like Excel. i have used rgl , but that does not produce beautiful graphs like excel(i dont need to rotate the graph). can anyone help me to produce graphs,just like excel. thanks in advance -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Help-with-3-d-barplot-in-R-tp3691840p3691840.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:49 AM, ATANU <ata.sonu at gmail.com> wrote:> i am trying to make 3-d barplots,pie-charts in R,just like Excel. i have used > rgl , but that does not produce beautiful graphs like excel(i dont need to"beautiful graphs" and "Excel" really do not belong in the same sentence.> rotate the graph). can anyone help me to produce graphs,just like excel3d barplots and piecharts in Excel tend to present trivial amounts of information, in a difficult-to-perceive-and-accurately-interpret way. Why replicate subpar functionality already implemented in another program? I suggest reading: ?William S. Cleveland. (1993). Visualizing Data. Hobart Press. ISBN-10: 0963488406 ISBN-13: 978-0963488404 and/or ?Edward R. Tufte. (2001). The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Second ed.). Graphics Press. ISBN-10: 0961392142 ISBN-13: 978-0961392147 HTH, Josh .> thanks in advance > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Help-with-3-d-barplot-in-R-tp3691840p3691840.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org 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. >-- Joshua Wiley Ph.D. Student, Health Psychology University of California, Los Angeles https://joshuawiley.com/
Right on, Red Freak!!! :-)
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Rolf
On 25/07/11 20:23, Joshua Wiley wrote:> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:49 AM, ATANU<ata.sonu at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> i am trying to make 3-d barplots,pie-charts in R,just like Excel. i
have used
>> rgl , but that does not produce beautiful graphs like excel(i dont need
to
> "beautiful graphs" and "Excel" really do not belong in
the same sentence.
>
>> rotate the graph). can anyone help me to produce graphs,just like excel
> 3d barplots and piecharts in Excel tend to present trivial amounts of
> information, in a difficult-to-perceive-and-accurately-interpret way.
> Why replicate subpar functionality already implemented in another
> program?
>
> I suggest reading:
>
> ?William S. Cleveland. (1993). Visualizing Data. Hobart Press.
> ISBN-10: 0963488406 ISBN-13: 978-0963488404
>
> and/or
>
> ?Edward R. Tufte. (2001). The Visual Display of Quantitative
> Information (Second ed.). Graphics Press.
> ISBN-10: 0961392142 ISBN-13: 978-0961392147
>
> HTH,
>
> Josh
On 07/25/2011 05:49 PM, ATANU wrote:> i am trying to make 3-d barplots,pie-charts in R,just like Excel. i have used > rgl , but that does not produce beautiful graphs like excel(i dont need to > rotate the graph). can anyone help me to produce graphs,just like excel. > thanks in advance >Hi ATANU, See if the barp function in the plotrix package with the "cylindrical" option does anything for you. Jim