[R] Help with 3-d barplot in R

Rolf Turner rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz
Tue Jul 26 00:00:59 CEST 2011



Right on, Red Freak!!! :-)

     cheers,

         Rolf

On 25/07/11 20:23, Joshua Wiley wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:49 AM, ATANU<ata.sonu at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> i am trying to make 3-d barplots,pie-charts in R,just like Excel. i have used
>> rgl , but that does not produce beautiful graphs like excel(i dont need to
> "beautiful graphs" and "Excel" really do not belong in the same sentence.
>
>> rotate the graph). can anyone help me to produce graphs,just like excel
> 3d barplots and piecharts in Excel tend to present trivial amounts of
> information, in a difficult-to-perceive-and-accurately-interpret way.
> Why replicate subpar functionality already implemented in another
> program?
>
> I suggest reading:
>
> •William S. Cleveland. (1993). Visualizing Data. Hobart Press.
> ISBN-10: 0963488406 ISBN-13: 978-0963488404
>
> and/or
>
> •Edward R. Tufte. (2001). The Visual Display of Quantitative
> Information (Second ed.). Graphics Press.
> ISBN-10: 0961392142 ISBN-13: 978-0961392147
>
> HTH,
>
> Josh



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