[R] Male and female symbols?

[(Ted Harding)]

On 24-Oct-05 Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> (Ted Harding) wrote:
> 
>> For example -- though I'm not seriously saying I need this --
>> in a population study of faxes and rabbits surveyed over several
>> years, one might wish to plot the Rabbit population using tiny
>> rabbits as points, and foxes' heads for the Fox population.
> 
>   I cant help thinking now of the graphic shown on the 'Brass Eye' 
> comedy show on Animal Cruelty. Cue totally over-the-top 3d zooming 
> barchart with mad lighting effects, and voice-over:
> 
> 'If you plot "number of animals abused" against "what makes people 
> cruel" versus "intelligence of either party", the pattern is so 
> unreadable you might as well draw in a chain of fox heads on sticks.
> And if you do that, an interesting thing happens: the word "cruel" 
> starts flashing.'
> 
>   But seriously: you could load in an image with the pixmap package and
> plot with that:
> 
> library(pixmap)
> x <- read.pnm(system.file("pictures/logo.ppm", package="pixmap")[1])
> plot(1:10,type='n')
> for(i in 1:10){addlogo(x,px=c(i-.2,i+.2),py=c(i-.2,i+.2))}
> 
>  From there to a chain of fox heads on sticks is a small step.
> 
> Baz

Baz, We know what your day job is. But what's the other one,
I begin to wonder?

Cheers,
Ted.


--------------------------------------------------------------------
E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861
Date: 24-Oct-05                                       Time: 10:52:33
------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------