[R] sprucing up the R homepage

[hadley wickham]

Dear Antony,

I think you have fundamentally misunderstood the purpose of graphics -
they are not to be used to gain insight into your data, but to add
excitement and interest to otherwise boring, text-filled pages ;)

Hadley

On 9/27/07, Antony Unwin <unwin at math.uni-augsburg.de> wrote:
> It's a good idea to spruce up the graphics on R's webpage, but before
> we get too excited about improving how they are drawn, shouldn't we
> think about improving what has been drawn?
>
> The original graphic showed off a wide variety of graphics which can
> be drawn with R, all applied to the swiss fertility dataset.  Are
> these the kinds of graphics we would want to draw in a real
> analysis?  I think a single parallel coordinate plot is more
> informative than this collection and would be easier to explain.  If
> you want to try it for yourself, use the package iplots with data
> (swiss) and then ipcp(swiss).
>
> So maybe someone should suggest graphics from another dataset to
> adorn the webpage and demonstrate R's graphics capabilities.
>
> Antony Unwin
> Professor of Computer-Oriented Statistics and Data Analysis,
> Mathematics Institute,
> University of Augsburg,
>
>
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