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4 messages · Richard Rowe, Peter Dalgaard, Bill Simpson +1 more

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Richard Rowe
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At 14:37 26/04/01 +0200, Peter D wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Why? dot plot is now a term in widespread use and of long standing (e.g. 
Cleveland 1985, 1994 etc) ... so far as I know it has always and only had 
one name. Altering terminology without a good (and consistent) reason isn't 
helpful ... 'to find more about dotcharts look up "dot plots" in Cleveland 
... ' adds a level of translation, which is bad when teaching newcomers,

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      Peter Dalgaard
    

    

      
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Richard Rowe <Richard.Rowe at jcu.edu.au> writes:

            

      
      
      
    

        
We'll need to assign other functionality to those two names for S-PLUS
compatibility. (S-PLUS uses them in Trellis displays, and work is
ongoing to create something compatible with that for R).

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Bill Simpson
    

    

      
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Richard Rowe wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        
Yeah I agree with Richard.
I never heard it called anything but dotplot. Why the new weird name? Can
we change it back?

Bill

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      Ross Ihaka
    

    

      
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Bill Simpson wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
The equivalent function to "dotplot" in Splus is (and has always been)
called "dotchart".  The name in Cleveland's "Elements of Graphing Data"
is "Dot Chart".  I just mis-remembered the name when I wrote the R
function ... (Sorry! I know name changes are a pain.).

The Lattice functions will provide generalized functionality for
dotplot and stripplot -- i.e. they will serve the same pupose as the
existing functions, but they will do a lot more.

The point in marking the present functions deprecated is to signal that
the change is coming.  You will be able to use the present functions
under the old names by doing
	dotplot <- dotchart
	stripplot <- stripchart
but I think you will like the new stuff.