R help - Dec 2005 - Commented version of the home page graphics code

Folks,
	I was drawn to R, like many others, partly for the opportunity
to draw nice, colorful graphs (occasionally ones with meaning, too :-)
). I am still quite a newbie to R.
As such, I have been trying to understand the code for the graphics on
the home page (the ones from the 2004 contest -- the dendrogram, the
cluster plot with different coloured circles, etc.) I was wondering
whether anyone has a commented version of this code that would help me
understand it a little easier.

-- Vivek Satsangi,
Student, Rochester, NY

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Hello,

Have you tried to ask its author directly (Eric Lecoutre 
<lecoutre at stat.ucl.ac.be>)?
Best,

Philippe Grosjean

Satsangi, Vivek wrote:
> Folks,
> 	I was drawn to R, like many others, partly for the opportunity
> to draw nice, colorful graphs (occasionally ones with meaning, too :-)
> ). I am still quite a newbie to R.
> As such, I have been trying to understand the code for the graphics on
> the home page (the ones from the 2004 contest -- the dendrogram, the
> cluster plot with different coloured circles, etc.) I was wondering
> whether anyone has a commented version of this code that would help me
> understand it a little easier.
> 
> -- Vivek Satsangi,
> Student, Rochester, NY
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
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Le 08.12.2005 18:37, Satsangi, Vivek a ??crit :
>Folks,
>	I was drawn to R, like many others, partly for the opportunity
>to draw nice, colorful graphs (occasionally ones with meaning, too :-)
>). I am still quite a newbie to R.
>As such, I have been trying to understand the code for the graphics on
>the home page (the ones from the 2004 contest -- the dendrogram, the
>cluster plot with different coloured circles, etc.) I was wondering
>whether anyone has a commented version of this code that would help me
>understand it a little easier.
>
>-- Vivek Satsangi,
>Student, Rochester, NY
>  
>
Hi Vivek,

Maybe you should start with simpler graphics

Eric wrote a little how-to about that graph.
It's in french though ...
http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/cgi-bin/getdata?FMPRO?-db=didacomment.fp5&-format=/dida/comment.htm&-Lay=Comment&-SortField=id&-SortOrder=descend&-max=1&id=24&op=eq&-find

Moreover, the code is highlight-ed here which may help you.
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/graphcode.php?graph=2

BTW, the code we get when cliking on the homepage graphic uses the mva 
package which doesn't exists anymore. Maybe somebody could erase that 
line from http://www.r-project.org/misc/acpclust.R

Romain

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