Nicole,

Since you seem more interested in accusing David of being rude than
recognizing your own rudeness and taking steps to overcome that and
increase your chance of getting useful responses I will quote a few lines
from the posting guide for you (the entire posting guide is available from
the link at the bottom of this and every R-help post):

 "Like many responses posted on the list, it is written in a concise
manner. This is not intended to be unfriendly - it is more a consequence of
allocating the limited available time and space to technical issues rather
than to social niceties."

"Remember that customs differ. Some people are very direct. Others surround
everything they say with hedges and apologies. Be tolerant. Rudeness is
never warranted, but sometimes `read the manual' *is* the appropriate
response."

"No HTML posting (harder to detect spam) (note that this is the default in
some mail clients - you may have to turn it off)."

"at a minimum, copy and paste the output from sessionInfo() into your
message"


I see attempts to help you in David's posts, I see very little in your
responses that would help him (or any of the rest of us) help you.


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Nicole Ford <nicoleford74@gmail.com> wrote:

> by the time your rude reply came ( you are often rude to people so i
> shouldn't have been surprised but somehow was) , i had already found my
> answer, by doing it MYSELF on her computer and found had not followed some
> simple instructions.
>
> be well.
> ~Nicole Ford
> Ph.D. student
> Graduate Assistant/ Instructor
> University of South Florida
> Government and International Affairs
> office: SOC 012M
> e: nmhicks@mail.usf.edu
> http://gia.usf.edu/student/nford/
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:18 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
> > My point is that you _still_ have not adhered to the Posting Guide
> request for sessionInfo() ... I say again. Please read the Posting Guide
> ... AND PLEASE STOP posting formatted email.
> >
> > --
> > David.
> >
> > On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Nicole Ford wrote:
> >
> >> I did look at ??pie  ??graphics, as per my reply.  which netted nothing
> of value.
> >>
> >> thanks.
> >> ~Nicole Ford
> >> Ph.D. student
> >> Graduate Assistant/ Instructor
> >> University of South Florida
> >> Government and International Affairs
> >> office: SOC 012M
> >> e: nmhicks@mail.usf.edu
> >> http://gia.usf.edu/student/nford/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Feb 25, 2013, at 12:38 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Nicole Ford wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> hello, all.
> >>>>
> >>>> one of my students is having an issue with the pie & legend function.
> >>>>
> >>>> this is her code.  (below)
> >>>>
> >>>> it works just fine for me.
> >>>>
> >>>> her error is "plot.new has not been called yet".  i know this means
> her pie chart is coming up blank so the legend will not work.
> >>>
> >>> So at that point, why not issue the command:
> >>>
> >>> plot.new()    # ?
> >>>
> >>> Graphics problems can be very system specific. Follow-up should
> include a proper adherence to the Posting Guide advice about the necessary
> problem description. You should assist R help by first educating yourself
> and then giving your students proper training in how to construct questions
> for R-help.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> according to ?graphics  this package *is* supposed to handle these
> functionalities.  however, when i tried to install it i get the following
> error:
> >>>>
> >>>> Warning message:
> >>>> package Śgraphics‚ is not available (for R version 2.15.2)
> >>>
> >>> The graphics package is part of the base installation. As far as I
> know you cannot reinstall it. You would instead need to reinstall R if you
> thought her installation if R was corrupt.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> David.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> however, the ?graphics page shows it is indeed available for this
> version of R.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Package:       graphics
> >>>> Version:       2.15.2
> >>>> Priority:      base
> >>>> Title:         The R Graphics Package
> >>>> Author:        R Core Team and contributors worldwide
> >>>> Maintainer:    R Core Team <R-core@r-project.org>
> >>>> Description:   R functions for base graphics
> >>>> Imports:       grDevices
> >>>> License:       Part of R 2.15.2
> >>>> Built:         R 2.15.2; ; 2012-10-26 16:14:39 UTC; unix
> >>>>
> >>>> thoughts are greatly appreciated.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> strength <- factor(c(rep("8.0-9.9", 2), rep("7.0-7.9", 12),
> rep("6.0-6.9", 108)))
> >>>>> plot(strength, xlab="Earthquake Strength", ylab="Frequency")
> >>>>> histogram(strength, xlab="Earthquake Strength", ylab="Relative
> Frequency by Percentage")
> >>>>> pie(table(strength))
> >>>> legend("topright", title="Earthquake Strength", cex=0.6, pch=16,
> col=c("white", "blue", "red"), legend=c("6.0 to 6.9", "7.0 to 7.9", "8.0 to
> 8.9"), ncol=3)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> David Winsemius
> >>> Alameda, CA, USA
> >>>
> >>
> >
> > David Winsemius
> > Alameda, CA, USA
> >
>
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>


-- 
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