[R] 3D pie

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On 4/19/06, Frank E Harrell Jr <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> Rolf Turner wrote:
> > Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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.
> >
> >     .
> >     .
> >     .
> >
> > People really ***should not*** be encouraged or abetted in
> > wrong-headedness.  Excel is terrible.  Pie charts are terrible.
> > Don't mess with them.  Period.
> >
> >
> >                       cheers,
> >
> >                               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.

But since R is controlling Excel you could reproduce the chart simply
by rerunning the R code.