[R] Ternary plots

[Peter Denisevich]

David Lucy wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Sorry about last message, the send key slipped.
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> Does anybody know about ternary (tertiary?) plotting functions for R -
> they're triangular things used much beloved by chemists for plotting
> compositional data.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
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There is an example of a ternary plot in the dataset 'Skye' in the package 'MASS':

>require(MASS)
>example(Skye)
...
I'm a chemist and I HATE ternary diagrams.  I'm hoping to use R to show the people
I work with that there are better ways, at least for the types of correlations
we're dealing with.


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