[R] Is it possible to do fancy area plots?

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On May 8, 2008, at 9:11 PM, Sean Carmody wrote:

> Does anyone have any ideas about how you could use R to produce a  
> fancy area
> plot like this one in the NY Times? http://tinyurl.com/6rr22g

I certainly hope not, I wouldn't want my favorite statistics program  
to produce an area graph where the sizes of the areas are not  
proportional to the percentages represented, and where the shapes of  
the areas are so irregular as to make effective area comparisons near  
impossible...

Unless my eyes are seriously deceiving me, which is quite possible.

It would be interesting however, to find out how such a graph is  
constructed. I wonder if hyperbolic geometry enters the picture.

> Regards,
> Sean,

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College