[R] [OT] vernacular names for circular diagrams

[Peter Dalgaard]

Jean lobry wrote:
>>  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
>   
Nice. Two minor points:

- the illustration for Danish has a cake which is speaking Polish....

- "Stastistical" (on the ISI page)

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