Carl Witthoft
2013-Oct-31 11:27 UTC
[R] Beginner having issues with making pie charts and other graphs
Rule Number One: Don't use pie charts. Rule Number Two: NEVER EVER USE PIE CHARTS! To learn how to create graphs in R, start with ?plot , ?points, ?lines. Later on you can investigate ?lattice, ?grid, and ?ggplot2 . The fact that you're looking 'online' instead of in R's builtin help mechanisms is disconcerting. blindchicken11 wrote> I just started using R software and I'm having some issues making > graphs/charts.[snip] > > I want to start off by just making a pie chart for the categorical data > like south, sex, etc. But I've tried everything and can't seem to find any > information online to help me. The few pie graphs I've gotten to show have > been giant black and white blobs with no information on them. Any help > would be greatly appreciated!-- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Beginner-having-issues-with-making-pie-charts-and-other-graphs-tp4679418p4679443.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
PIKAL Petr
2013-Oct-31 14:21 UTC
[R] Beginner having issues with making pie charts and other graphs
Hi> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Carl Witthoft > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 12:27 PM > To: r-help at r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Beginner having issues with making pie charts and > other graphs > > Rule Number One: Don't use pie charts. > > Rule Number Two: NEVER EVER USE PIE CHARTS!However, if you still, despite of beeing warned, want to use pie chart see ?pie pie(rep(1, 24), col = rainbow(24), radius = 0.9) Regards Petr> > To learn how to create graphs in R, start with ?plot , ?points, > ?lines. > Later on you can investigate ?lattice, ?grid, and ?ggplot2 . > The fact that you're looking 'online' instead of in R's builtin help > mechanisms is disconcerting. > > > > > blindchicken11 wrote > > I just started using R software and I'm having some issues making > > graphs/charts.[snip] > > > > I want to start off by just making a pie chart for the categorical > > data like south, sex, etc. But I've tried everything and can't seem > to > > find any information online to help me. The few pie graphs I've > gotten > > to show have been giant black and white blobs with no information on > > them. Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Beginner- > having-issues-with-making-pie-charts-and-other-graphs- > tp4679418p4679443.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.