[R] scale breaks

[Sarah Goslee]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote:
> Sarah et. al.:
>
> Heh heh.
>
> However .. my always fallible judgment says, don't do it. Axis scale breaks
> invite misreading, Consider alternatives:
> http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/1764/what-are-alternatives-to-broken-axes

Well, yes. But the original querent asked about that particular
option, from a post that listed all sorts of ways to deal with skewed
data, even though that post explains why breaks are a bad idea. So I
answered: if you know that something is bad but want to do it anyway,
you're on your own! :)

Sarah


> Cheers,
> Bert
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.goslee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Shane Carey <careyshan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Has anyone ever created scale breaks in R something like what is shown
>> > here
>> > in the section, Use a Scale Break,
>> > http://www.r-bloggers.com/graphing-highly-skewed-data/
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Using my rudimentary telepathic powers, I suppose that you also want
>> to know how to do it, not just whether it has been done. In that case,
>> perhaps you should look at axis.break() from the plotrix package.
>>
>>
>> Sarah
>>

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