Implementation of pretty
On 4/5/07, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
"hadley" == hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com>
on Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:43:41 -0500 writes:
hadley> Hi, I'm trying to track down any references for the
hadley> implementation of pretty (or grid.pretty) in R. Is
hadley> it original work?
Much of it is. The original version, say R version 0.01, may
have been based on some reference, but we have added quite a few extra tweaks,
where in my case I sat down with a piece of paper, considered
and transformed some inequalities and also did computer
experiments additionally.
I've even started to make more coherent notes eventually, but
not electronically, and hence no tech.report / publication / ...
{ Did you really want to know this :-) }
Yes - that's great! And if you ever do put you notes in electronic format I'd love to see them. There's very little written on the subject of choosing good tick marks. Hadley