[R] Hunting a histogram variant

[Jim Lemon]

Hi,
This looks very much like a waffle plot, which can be performed with
color2D.matplot in the plotrix package. At the moment, the function
fill.corner is used to produce the matrix, but this could be
generalized to produce any shape of "waffle". The value display is
already part of color2D.matplot.

Jim

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:01 PM, S Ellison <S.Ellison at lgcgroup.com> wrote:
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> I'm looking for a histogram variant in which data points are plotted as labelled rectangles 'piled up' to form a histogram. I've posted an example at https://www.dropbox.com/s/ozi8bhdn5kqaufm/labelled_histogram.png?dl=0
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> It seems to have a long pedigree, as I see it (as in this example) in documents going back beyond the '80s. But I've not seen it in recent textbooks. So it may be one of those older graphical displays that's just fallen out of use.
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> General questions:
> i) Does this thing have a name?
> ii) Can anyone point me to a literature source for it?
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> ... and the R question:
> ii) Is it already hiding somewhere in an R package?*
>
> S Ellison
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> *If it's not, I'll be adding it to one, hence the hunt for due credit/sources
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