[R] Matrix bar plot

Bert Gunter gunter.berton at gene.com
Fri Oct 5 01:39:19 CEST 2007


On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:15:34PM -0500, hadley wickham wrote:
> Why would you want a plot that looks like that?  Half the bars are
> hidden behind other bars!

I would rotate it such that all bars are visible.
-TAG

-- thus distorting the perspective even more so that you can not make
accurate (perhaps even relatively!) judgments of magnitude. I echo Hadley's
sentiment: such 3-D bar plots are an abomination. Just because Excel can do
them doesn't mean you should.

(Dismount pulpit).

-- Bert Gunter
Genentech

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