squared "pie chart" - is there such a thing?
How about just a stacked bar plot? barplot(matrix(c(3,5,3),3,1),horiz=T,beside=F) Tom
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Naomi Robbins <nbrgraphs at optonline.net> wrote:
Hello! It's a shoot in the dark, but I'll try. If one has a total of 100 (e.g., %), and three components of the total, e.g., mytotal=data.frame(x=50,y=30,z=20), - one could build a pie chart with 3 sectors representing x, y, and z according to their proportions in the total. I am wondering if it's possible to build something very similar, but not on a circle but in a square - such that the total area of the square is the sum of the components and the components (x, y, and z) are represented on a square as shapes with right angles (squares, rectangles, L-shapes, etc.). I realize there are many possible positions and shapes - even for 3 components. But I don't really care where components are located within the square - as long as they are there. Is there a package that could do something like that? Thanks a lot! ----- I included waffle charts in Creating More Effective Graphs. The reaction was very negative; many readers let me know that they didn't like them. To create them I just drew a table in Word with 10 rows and 10 columns. Then I shaded the backgrounds of cells so for your example we would shade 50 cells one color, 30 another, and 20 a third color. Naomi ------------- Naomi B. Robbins 11 Christine Court Wayne, NJ 07470 973-694-6009 naomi at nbr-graphs.com <mailto:naomi at nbr-graphs.com> http://www.nbr-graphs.com Author of Creating More Effective Graphs <http://www.nbr-graphs.com/bookframe.html> // ? ? ? ?[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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