Message-ID: <59d7961d0709281311w17d6854pa791d22ca66c3df4@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2007-09-28T20:11:13Z
From: Henrik Bengtsson
Subject: Graphics and LaTeX documents with the same font
In-Reply-To: <f8e6ff050709281013i7209b684r63aa0d8fcd69d4ef@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/28/07, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes there is harm. But to make bold lines, easy to read titles is fine.
> > See the spar function in
> > http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SgraphicsHints for a starter. Also see
> > the setps, ps.slide, and setpdf functions in the Hmisc package.
>
> I was interested to see that you have code for drawing scatterplots
> with multiple y-axes. As far as I know the only legitimate use for a
> double-axis plot is to confuse or mislead the reader (and this is not
> a very ethical use case). Perhaps you have a counter-example?
Eh... How about all cases where you plot against one variable but want
to show it in different units, e.g. temperature in degrees of
Celsius/Centigrades on one and degrees on Fahrenheit on the other? I
would say that is a case where you rather want to help the reader, not
mislead her/him.
-Henrik
>
> Hadley
>
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