R help - Oct 2002 - Cleveland's Cut-and-Stack Plot

Hi,

Is there a function in R that does Cleveland's Cut-and-Stack plot (Page
190 -- 191, The Elements of Graphing Data, William S. Cleveland)?

Or do I need to do it the hard way, i.e. set par(mfrow = c(m, n)) then do
it one-by-one?  

(I have a time series data set that is almost identical to the description
in Cleveland's book, hence I'm interested in trying the Cut-and-Stack
plot)

Cheers,

Kevin

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Ko-Kang Kevin Wang
Postgraduate PGDipSci Student
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
New Zealand
Homepage: http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~kwan022


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>>>>> "KKWa" == Ko-Kang Kevin Wang <kwan022 at
stat.auckland.ac.nz>
>>>>>     on Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:55:11 +1200 (NZST) writes:
    KKWa> Hi, Is there a function in R that does Cleveland's
    KKWa> Cut-and-Stack plot (Page 190 -- 191, The Elements of
    KKWa> Graphing Data, William S. Cleveland)?

or p.162-3, "Visualizing Data"  by W.S.Cleveland (1993)

Yes. I have something, see below.
Differences:
1) I don't like the stacking from bottom to top, since I read
   graphics (and time) top to bottom

2) By default, I use about 5% overlap on each side

3) no visual reference grid yet. The function was born in 1994,
   long before I even thought of using lattice/trellis.

The function (+ help page) I have is part of a local package which would
probably be called "sfsmisc" (miscellaneous nice utilities of
the S.f.S. (Seminar for Statistics) of ETH Zurich.

I'm about to make this available as beta version within the
several hours, 
	ftp://stat.ethz.ch/U/maechler/R/sfsmisc_0.8-0.tar.gz
and later on CRAN.
Note that the package does not contain any source code and hence
should easily port to Windows.

Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch>
http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum  LEO C16	Leonhardstr. 27
ETH (Federal Inst. Technology)	8092 Zurich	SWITZERLAND
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