[R] I have a question on nomograms.

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R Heberto Ghezzo, Dr wrote:
> 
>  On the same topic but from a different perspective. A Nomogram or better
> a Line Aligned Nomogram is a graph with 2 or more scales, maybe linear
> where by alignig values in each scale you can read values in the other
> scale. The relationship can be linear, then the scales a straght lines or
> functional then the scale s curvilinear or even a bidimensional surface
> with 2 grids.
> Is there any program in R, S, C, Fortran, etc to compute such a graph. I
> know tere is an old book by Ott or something like that in Nomograms but I
> could not find it.
> Does anybody knows anything about constructing LAN? Any books or already
> rograms to do it?
> There are very usefull for a 2 digits solution and they can bu pin in the
> wall!
> 

Pynomo, which is written in Python does alignment nomograms very well if you
have the equation already.  http://www.pynomo.org/ 

It is highly sophisticated, and free.

Ron Doerfler's blog has some great posts on the "Art of Nomography"
http://www.myreckonings.com/wordpress/

from those links you should be able to find your way to more resources.

The author you were trying to think of was probably "Otto", who wrote a very
good book on nomography.
E. Otto, "Nomography," MacMillan, New York, 1963

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