[R] sprucing up the R homepage

[Marc Schwartz]

<Gack>

Who are you and what have you done with the real Hadley?

Marc

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 11:55 -0500, hadley wickham wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> After learning that you could produce translucent 3d pie charts in excel.
> 
> Hadley
> 
> On 9/27/07, Jim Porzak <jporzak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hadley,
> >
> > When did you switch to the Marketing MBA program?
> >
> > - Jim
> >
> > On 9/27/07, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Dear Antony,
> > >
> > > I think you have fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of graphics -
> > > they are not to be used to gain insight into your data, but to add
> > > excitement and interest to otherwise boring, text-filled pages ;)
> > >
> > > Hadley
> > >
> > > On 9/27/07, Antony Unwin <unwin at math.uni-augsburg.de> wrote:
> > > > It's a good idea to spruce up the graphics on R's webpage, but before
> > > > we get too excited about improving how they are drawn, shouldn't we
> > > > think about improving what has been drawn?
> > > >
> > > > The original graphic showed off a wide variety of graphics which can
> > > > be drawn with R, all applied to the swiss fertility dataset.  Are
> > > > these the kinds of graphics we would want to draw in a real
> > > > analysis?  I think a single parallel coordinate plot is more
> > > > informative than this collection and would be easier to explain.  If
> > > > you want to try it for yourself, use the package iplots with data
> > > > (swiss) and then ipcp(swiss).
> > > >
> > > > So maybe someone should suggest graphics from another dataset to
> > > > adorn the webpage and demonstrate R's graphics capabilities.
> > > >
> > > > Antony Unwin
> > > > Professor of Computer-Oriented Statistics and Data Analysis,
> > > > Mathematics Institute,
> > > > University of Augsburg,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> > > >
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