[R] Stacked Area Plot

Greg Snow
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:36:58 -0000

The example pointed to below is a good example of fortune(197).

It is possible to do using polygon (and is probably not as hard as you are
making it), but there is probably a better way to present your data.  What
question are you trying to answer with this plot?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Josip Dasovic
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:02 PM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Stacked Area Plot
>
> Hi:
>
> I've searched the archives and the Internet for hours but have yet to
> find a way to do stacked area plots (like the kind in Excel) in R.  I
> think that polygon may work but it would require a bit of manipulation
> of my data. I was hoping for an easier way.
>
> An example of what I'm trying to do can be found here:
> http://jcharts.sourceforge.net/samples/stackedArea.html
>
> Thanks,
> Josip
>
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