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< Does anyone know why they're called random deviates, as opposed to random numbers?> Others will probably give you some technical reason about random numbers can be considered as random deviates from a mean (I think at least the 1875 Galton paper at http://www.mugu.com/galton/ uses similar terminology (I'm not claiming this is the earliest use - just the easiest to access at the moment)). But everyone knows the real reason for the term is to create the oxymoron 'normal deviates' - it's a great name for a softball team of statisticians :) Bob...

Hi All, I'd like to plot something like http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~weather/mugu/mesodata/analysis.html Looking through the galleries at http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/allgraph.php http://r-spatial.sourceforge.net/gallery/ http://fawn.unibw-hamburg.de/cgi-bin/Rwiki.pl?GraphGallery demo(graphics) I did not find a function to plot a 2d field on a matrix. I did find...