[R] Re: R-1.2.3 terminology
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Fri Apr 27 10:35:34 CEST 2001
Richard Rowe <Richard.Rowe at jcu.edu.au> writes:
> At 14:37 26/04/01 +0200, Peter D wrote:
>
> >dotchart() and stripchart() become the preferred names for dotplot() and
> >stripplot(), respectively. The old names are now deprecated.
>
> Why? dot plot is now a term in widespread use and of long standing (e.g.
> Cleveland 1985, 1994 etc) ... so far as I know it has always and only had
> one name. Altering terminology without a good (and consistent) reason isn't
> helpful ... 'to find more about dotcharts look up "dot plots" in Cleveland
> ... ' adds a level of translation, which is bad when teaching newcomers,
We'll need to assign other functionality to those two names for S-PLUS
compatibility. (S-PLUS uses them in Trellis displays, and work is
ongoing to create something compatible with that for R).
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