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Subject:    Re: [R] 4D stacked column chart, Excel -> R
From:       waeltlmi () fh-albsig ! de
Date:       2006-02-28 10:07:54
Message-ID: 20060228100221.M68232 () fh-albsig ! de
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Hi,

thanks for your help.

that is the task though, I don't have the choice and

I think for our purpose it is very good.

I don't want to have a look at the exact numbers, I just want to find and see

bigger columns in higher km regions immediately.

Then the date of this cases is interesting.

For exact evaluation I would have a closer look at the data.

It is vey good for our purpose and the "first look".

Does some one else have an idea to realisie it?

Is the openGL rgl package a possibility to realise it?

Please help me! Thanks a lot

Regards,

Michael

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:18:00 -0600, hadley wickham wrote
> A stacked barchart is a bad idea.  A 3d barchart is a very bad idea. 
> A stacked 3d barchart is a very very bad idea. 
> 
> Why?  Because it is very difficult to compare numbers.  In a stacked 
> bar chart you can only really compare the total, and the number in the 
> lowest bar.  In a 3d barchart you can only compare values in the same 
> row (distorting perspective + occlusion). 
> 
> If you want to display you data in a interpretible way, I would 
> suggest a dotchart, carefully broken down to emphasise the comparisons 
> you want. 
> 
> Hadley 
> 
> On 2/27/06, waeltlmi@fh-albsig.de <waeltlmi@fh-albsig.de> wrote: 
> > Hi All. 
> > 
> > I'd like to programm a 4 dimensional chart in R. 
> > Acctually I wanted to solve that problem in Excel cause I had the data there. 
> > Here is a link of my actual problem description (there are some chart pictures as \
> > well)....  http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/viewtopic.php?t=187336&highlight=stacked+column \
> >  because I still couldn't solve that problem I came to R. 
> > 
> > The chart should be actually a 3D chart of the type 3D Column Chart with \
> > following achsis:  X Achsis: driven kilometre in 10000 blocks 
> > Y Achsis: Production month 
> > Z Achsis: number 
> > I need to show another month in that chart, the repair month. 
> > Each column should be a stacked column with more colors, so that every color \
> > shows one repair month.  
> > I tried to do it with the scatterplot3d function after I saw this example (it is \
> > from uwe ligges book):  install.packages("scatterplot3d") 
> > library("scatterplot3d") 
> > data(trees) 
> > s3d <- scatterplot3d(trees, type = "h", angle = 55, scale.y = 0.7, pch = 16, main \
> > = "trees")  my.lm <- with(trees, lm(Volume ~ Girth + Height) ) 
> > s3d$plane3d(my.lm, lty.box = "solid" ) 
> > 
> > Normally I just have to group the ranges which show the km in 10000 blocks and \
> > group the points as well,  but I didn't come that far. even the scatterplot3d \
> > funtion didn't work for my data (gwx and x is my data table).  x <- \
> > gw.faelle(gwx)  k3d <- scatterplot3d(x, type = "h", angle = 55, scale.y = 0.7, \
> > pch = 16, main = "GWK" )  Error in segments(x, z, x, z2, col = col, cex = \
> > cex.symbols, ...) :  invalid color specification 
> > 
> > Do you have an idea how I can accomplish this task? Is it at allpossible to do \
> > that with scatterplot and some low level functions orshall I look at other \
> > packages and functions?  
> > Thanks in advance for any help and ideas! 
> > 
> > Best regards, 
> > Michael 
> > 
> > 
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