[R] sprucing up the R homepage

[Jim Porzak]

Hadley,

When did you switch to the Marketing MBA program?

- Jim

On 9/27/07, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> >
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