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Message-ID: <BANLkTik_cPF0eRuRGER7ho6Hr8kQLs8W=w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-04-08T01:47:17Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: Windrose Percent Interval Frequencies Are Non Linear! Help!
In-Reply-To: <4D9E61E6.4090407@ucalgary.ca>

>> Does anyone with specific windrose experience know how to adjust the
>> graphic such that the data and the percent intervals are evenly spaced?
>>
>> Hopefully I am making sense here....
>
> How about giving us a reproducible example?
> Code is better than mere description;
> code + description is best.

The "problem" is probably that A = pi r ^2, and the percent intervals
are spaced evenly on the square root scale to keep areas from being
distorted.

Hadley

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Assistant Professor / Dobelman Family Junior Chair
Department of Statistics / Rice University
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