[R] bubble(circle) plot help.

[Yihui Xie]

The function symbols() is in the package 'graphics', so you don't need
any add-on packages.

For example:

# similar code to the example you mentioned
set.seed(1)
symbols(x = rnorm(50), y = rnorm(50), circles = abs(rnorm(50)),
    main = "Circles Plot")

Yihui

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Wen Gu <edwardg22486 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I apologize, I don't quite follow, as I am pretty new at this. Can you give
> me an example of the code you suggest? Does your suggestions still use the
> fbasic package?
>
>> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:45:02 +0800
>> From: xieyihui at gmail.com
>> To: edwardg22486 at hotmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [R] bubble(circle) plot help.
>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>>
>> ?symbols
>>
>> use the argument "circles"
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Wen Gu <edwardg22486 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I need help creating a bubbleplot, like a simple pseudo three
>> > dimensional scatterplot of circles whose sizes index a 3rd variable. I
>> > initially came across this at
>> > http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/graphcode.php?graph=73 but the
>> > circleplot function does not exist in fbasic as listed in the document.
>> >
>>
>>
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