[R] 3D pie

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Rolf Turner wrote:
> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
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>>Since everyone else wimped out with a tedious you-do-not-want-to-do-that,
>>here is a solution that uses R to control Excel and create a 3d chart.
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> People really ***should not*** be encouraged or abetted in
> wrong-headedness.  Excel is terrible.  Pie charts are terrible.
> Don't mess with them.  Period.
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> 			cheers,
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> 				Rolf Turner
> 				rolf at math.unb.ca

I second that.  Helping people do things known to have major problems 
with the approaches can actually hurt others in the long run.  2-D pie 
charts are terrible.  That makes 3-D pie charts terrible to the 3/2 
power.  Excel has serious errors and is not a good model for 
reproducible research.
-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University