Playfair, W. 1801. The commercial
and political atlas. London: Wallis
-- out of print for a wee while
until re-issued by Cambridge University
Press recently -- is one source of examples of
something now rarely permitted by publishers:
graphs on larger-size paper that may be unfolded.
Nick
[email protected]
Nick Cox
>
> sliceplot: time series or other plot in slices
> ==============================================
>
> Often a time series plot -- or indeed some other
> kinds of plot -- would benefit from a short and
> wide scale. In his excellent books on graphics,
> Bill Cleveland recommends as an ideal that line
> segments should be close to 45 deg. This advice
> is also to be found as far back as R.A. Fisher's
> "Statistical methods for research workers", and
> perhaps earlier.
>
> This rule is difficult to achieve on the kind of
> time series that goes up and down like a demented
> yo-yo on steroids, unless either you have easy
> access to a printer with special paper sizes
> or you slice the plot and then recombine in
> one image.
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