Brian D Ripley writes: Interactive rotation of perspective plots would be a great boon, as would shading options for perspective plots, including contouring on such plots. I am envisioning a division into static and dynamic plots. The static version will concentrate on rendering as nice a picture as possible - anti-aliasing (if supported) arbitrary text rotation etc, whereas the dynamic version will shoot for speed. It would be possible to use direct manipulation in a dynamic plot of a wire-frame to select a viewing direction and then have a nicely rendered version of the surface produced in a separate (static) plot. This separation is motivated by the fact that there will soon be some rather nice rendering tools available for Unix/Linux (anti-aliasing built-in), but their performance will be limited. One day we will all have OpenGL hardware acceleration and then we can have just one graphics system (maybe). Shading is possible with the current version of "persp", but you have to compute the shades yourself :-(. An automated version of this is on my list, as is contouring on (and under) the rendered surface and draping. Of course, as always, limited resources may well curtail what we can produce. I giving fairly high priority to being able to draw maps, as that is something I personally will need for teaching. Ross -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
contour labelling [was "Re: [R] image ()"]
5 messages · Ross Ihaka, Göran Broström, Peter Dalgaard +2 more
I have a slightly off-topic question, but I think I got it originally from this list: I am looking for an article (probably to some mailing-list) titled "A Statistical Scandal" (I think), which I once have seen, but now cannot find. It was about how bad some statistical packages handles certain tasks. I also remember the phrase "four-letter acronym" regarding the name of one such package. Can anyone help me finding this article? Thanks! -------------------------------------------------------------- G?ran Brostr?m Department of Statistics tel: +46 90 786-5223 Ume? University fax: +46 90 786-6614 S-90187 Ume?, Sweden e-mail: gb at stat.umu.se http://www.stat.umu.se/~gb ftp://capa.stat.umu.se -------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Goran Brostrom <gb at stat.umu.se> writes:
I have a slightly off-topic question, but I think I got it originally from this list: I am looking for an article (probably to some mailing-list) titled "A Statistical Scandal" (I think), which I once have seen, but now cannot find. It was about how bad some statistical packages handles certain tasks. I also remember the phrase "four-letter acronym" regarding the name of one such package. Can anyone help me finding this article? Thanks!
It was on Allstat (find the online archive with yor favourite search machine). End of September, I believe.
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On 04-Dec-98 Goran Brostrom wrote:
I am looking for an article (probably to some mailing-list) titled "A Statistical Scandal" (I think), which I once have seen, but now cannot find. It was about how bad some statistical packages handles certain tasks. I also remember the phrase "four-letter acronym" regarding the name of one such package. Can anyone help me finding this article? Thanks!
Your uncertainly remembered information is sufficient for unique identification! Written by John Nelder, it was forwarded to Allstat 28 September: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/allstat/1998-09/0132.html with followups: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/allstat/1998-09/0141.html http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/allstat/1998-09/0142.html http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/allstat/1998-09/0146.html http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/allstat/1998-09/0147.html http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/allstat/1998-09/0151.html http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/allstat/1998-09/0152.html Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 04-Dec-98 Time: 14:27:04 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
On 04-Dec-98 Goran Brostrom wrote:
I have a slightly off-topic question, but I think I got it originally from this list: I am looking for an article (probably to some mailing-list) titled "A Statistical Scandal" (I think)
It is an e-mail from John Nelder. I saw this on the "allstat" mailing list, although of course it may be available elsewhere. It is archived at http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/allstat/1998-09/0132.html Martyn -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._