[R] Graphics and LaTeX documents with the same font

Frank E Harrell Jr f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu
Sat Sep 29 00:22:11 CEST 2007


hadley wickham wrote:
>> Yes there is harm.  But to make bold lines, easy to read titles is fine.
>>   See the spar function in
>> http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SgraphicsHints for a starter.  Also see
>> the setps, ps.slide, and setpdf functions in the Hmisc package.
> 
> I was interested to see that you have code for drawing scatterplots
> with multiple y-axes.  As far as I know the only legitimate use for a
> double-axis plot is to confuse or mislead the reader (and this is not
> a very ethical use case).  Perhaps you have a counter-example?
> 
> Hadley
> 

Generally I share your dislike of those, and prefer multiple panels with 
different scales.

Cheers
Frank

-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University



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