[R] squared "pie chart" - is there such a thing?

[Liaw, Andy]

Has anyone suggested mosaic displays?  That's the closest I can think of as a "square pie chart"... 

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> 
> I don't usually use stacked bar charts since it is difficult 
> to compare 
> lengths that don't have
> a common baseline.
> 
> Naomi
> 
> On 7/23/2011 11:14 PM, Thomas Levine wrote:
> > 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!
> >>
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> >>
> >> 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
> >>
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