[R] 3d bar plot

[Patrick Connolly]

On Tue, 18-Jan-2005 at 07:50AM +0100, Lorenz.Gygax at fat.admin.ch wrote:

|> > This graph -> 
|> > http://www.math.hope.edu/~tanis/dallas/images/disth36.gif
|> > is an example I found at
|> > http://www.math.hope.edu/~tanis/dallas/disth1.html
|> > created by Maple.
|> > 
|> > Does anybody know how to create something similar in R?
|> > 
|> > I have a feeling it could be possible using scatterplot3d
|> > (perhaps with type=h, the fourth example in help('scatterplot3d')?),
|> > but I cannot figure it out.
|> 
|> Sorry to butt in with a more fundamental question. Is this really the kind
|> of graph we want to cultivate and support? In my oppinion, it is hardly ever
|> necessary to have a graph in 3D or even in higher dimensions (one certain
|> exception is if one tries to spin a higly dimensional dataset in search of
|> patterns as you can do in ggobi and there might certainly be others).
|> 
|> At least the graph presented in the example does - in my eyes - not warrant
|> a 3D plot. Why not just draw curves for each of the n's in a plot of 'A'
|> against 'row'? This would enable a reader to make straightforward
|> comparisons of the curves and allow to estimate the height of the 'columns'
|> along the 'A'-axis much more easily.

I'd agree that 7 curves of different line type and/or colour would
make the whole story clearer.  More informative labels would help
also.  What is a "row" and a "column"?  The rainbow eye candy adds no
information and consequently does nothing to improve the information
to ink ratio.  Of course, that's not important in a world where form
takes precedence over substance which I think is what is called "the
real world".

Dejectedly yours,

-- 
Patrick Connolly
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