[R] 3D Bar Graphs in ggplot2?

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-08-04 8:20 AM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
>>>>>>      on Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:51:38 -0400 writes:
>
>      >  On 11-08-02 2:39 PM, wwreith wrote:
>      >>  Does anyone know how to create a 3D Bargraph using
>      >>  ggplot2/qplot. I don't mean 3D as in x,y,z coordinates. Just a
>      >>  2D bar graph with a 3D shaped bard.  See attached excel file
>      >>  for an example.
>      >>
>      >>  Before anyone asks I know that 3D looking bars don't add
>      >>  anything except "prettiness".
>
>      >  If you want graphs like that, you should be using Excel, not R.
>
> Yes!!
>
> 10th commandment of R: You shall not misuse R!

I admit that the commandment partly motivated my message, but this was 
also advice to William:  Excel is designed to produce those things, R is 
not, so it is an inefficient use of his time to try to produce them in R.

Duncan Murdoch