Andy,

Mosaic plots were suggested by Sarah Goslee on July 21st. Unfortunately, 
I broke the chain of
messages when I was away from home, in a rush and didn't know how to 
respond to messages
from a digest.

Naomi

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On 7/25/2011 11:28 AM, Liaw, Andy wrote:
> Has anyone suggested mosaic displays?  That's the closest I can think of as a "square pie chart"...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces@r-project.org
>> [mailto:r-help-bounces@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Naomi Robbins
>> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2011 7:09 AM
>> To: Thomas Levine
>> Cc: r-help@r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] squared "pie chart" - is there such a thing?
>>
>> I don't usually use stacked bar charts since it is difficult
>> to compare
>> lengths that don't have
>> a common baseline.
>>
>> Naomi
>>
>> On 7/23/2011 11:14 PM, Thomas Levine wrote:
>>> How about just a stacked bar plot?
>>>
>>> barplot(matrix(c(3,5,3),3,1),horiz=T,beside=F)
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Naomi
>> Robbins<nbrgraphs@optonline.net>   wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>> It's a shoot in the dark, but I'll try. If one has a total of 100
>>>> (e.g., %), and three components of the total, e.g.,
>>>> mytotal=data.frame(x=50,y=30,z=20), - one could build a
>> pie chart with
>>>> 3 sectors representing x, y, and z according to their
>> proportions in
>>>> the total.
>>>> I am wondering if it's possible to build something very
>> similar, but
>>>> not on a circle but in a square - such that the total area of the
>>>> square is the sum of the components and the components (x,
>> y, and z)
>>>> are represented on a square as shapes with right angles (squares,
>>>> rectangles, L-shapes, etc.). I realize there are many possible
>>>> positions and shapes - even for 3 components. But I don't
>> really care
>>>> where components are located within the square - as long
>> as they are
>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a package that could do something like that?
>>>> Thanks a lot!
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>>
>>>> I included waffle charts in Creating More Effective Graphs.
>>>> The reaction was very negative; many readers let me know
>>>> that they didn't like them. To create them I just drew a table
>>>> in Word with 10 rows and 10 columns. Then I shaded the
>>>> backgrounds of cells so for your example we would shade
>>>> 50 cells one color, 30 another, and 20 a third color.
>>>>
>>>> Naomi
>>>>
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