[Rd] mosaicplot() update and clarification

[John W Emerson]

All,

Again, my apologies for seeming to claim credit for
your other mosaic implementation.  However, there are two
sources of this confusion, and I hope the following helps.

1. "my" implementation (e.g. the one originally written for
and included in S-Plus, then modified and improved for R
by "KH") appears to have been included in a package
called "vcd" at some point in time.  This was one of the
first hits when I used googled "vcd".  See, for example:

http://www.maths.lth.se/help/R/.R/library/vcd/html/mosaicplot.html

2. Once I load library(vcd) and do ?mosaicplot, the top of the
help page does, in fact, say "package:vcd" although it credits me
as the author?!  This was downloaded today from CRAN.  This most
certainly is not my fault, nor do I want to take credit for
something that isn't mine.  If {vcd} uses R:base's mosaicplot(),
then, of course, everything is fine, but I gather from your email
that this is not the case. So perhaps the {vcd} package needs to
update its documentation.  If I am misunderstanding something,
again, I apologize.

Anyway, the more interested people we have improving
our graphics tools, the better!  !_)

Cheers,

Jay


On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Achim Zeileis wrote:

> Jay:
> 
> > Thanks, I'll send the code with the few changes marked
> > with something obvious like,
> > 
> > ################################# JWE changed previous line,
> > 
> > etc...
> > 
> > I wasn't aware of the {vcd} implementation.  It looks like it
> > is built on my original S-Plus code, too. 
> 
> Nope, everything written from scratch using Paul's wonderful grid
> graphics. The internals look completely different and David's
> implementation provides not only mosaic plots but also association and
> sieve plots within the same framework.
> 
> > Always nice to get the citation!
> 
> ...give credit where credit is due...:-)
> Best,
> Z
> 
> > Jay
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > 
> > > Jay,
> > > 
> > > Having your code change to know exactly what you are suggesting
> > > would be helpful.
> > > 
> > > There is an enhanced version of mosaicplot called mosaic in package
> > > vcd, and you might like to talk to its maintainers (if the facility
> > > is not already there, as at a quick glance it seemed not to be).
> > > 
> > > Brian
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, John W Emerson wrote:
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > Hi --
> > > >
> > > > I've found a need for an additional option to mosaicplot(), to
> > > > suppress the labels.  It's not difficult, obviously, a minor
> > > > thing.
> > > >
> > > > Would you like me to submit my revised code (I'll use your code
> > > > rather than my original source code which was adapted for S-Plus
> > > > and R)?  Or it might be a 5-minute change for the appropriate
> > > > person.  No problem either way, just let me know.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Jay
> > > >
> > > > John Emerson
> > > > Assistant Professor of Statistics
> > > > Yale University
> > > >
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