[R] [OT] vernacular names for circular diagrams

[Jean lobry]

>  Dear useRs,
>
>  by a circular diagram representation I mean what you will get by entering
>  this at your R promt:
>
>  pie(1:5)
>
>  Nice to have R as a lingua franca :-)
>
>  The folowing quote is from page 360 in this very interesting paper:
>
>  @article{SpenceI2005,
>       title = {No Humble Pie: The Origins and Usage of a Statistical Chart},
>       author = {Spence, I.},
>       journal = {Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics},
>       volume = {30},
>       pages = {353-368},
>       year = {2005}
>  }
>
>  QUOTE
>  Like us, the French employ a gastronomical metaphor when
>  they refer to Playfair's pie chart, but they have preferred
>  instead to invoke the name of the wonderful round soft
>  cheese from Normandy - the camembert. When I spent 4 months
>  in Paris a few years ago, a friend invited my wife and me to
>  lunch with her elderly father who lives in Rouen, Normandy,
>  about an hour North of Paris. Her father inquired -
>  coincidentally during the cheese course - what work I was
>  doing in Paris; I replied that I was researching the
>  activities of a Scot, William Playfair, during the
>  revolutionary period. I told him that Playfair had invented
>  several statistical graphs, including the pie chart, which I
>  referred to, in French, as <<le camembert.>> After a stunned
>  silence of perhaps a couple of seconds, the distinguished
>  elderly gentleman looked me in the eye and exclaimed, <<Mon
>  Dieu ! Notre camembert?>>
>  UNQUOTE
>
>  So, I'm just curious: how do you refer in your own language to
>  this kind of graphic? How do you call it?
>
>  Best,
>
>  Jean

Thanks to all who replied either privately or on the list. I have
summarized the answers at the beginning of the following document:

http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/R/diaposcam.pdf

Let me know if you have more eatable examples.

Best,

Jean
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