June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
1783 pages
71h 22m
English
Pie charts are very popular in business data reporting. However, they are not preferred by scientists and are often criticized for being hard to read and obscuring data. In this recipe, we will learn how to make better pie charts by ordering the slices by size.
In this recipe, we will use the browsers.txt example dataset that contains data about the usage percentage share of different Internet browsers.
First, we will load the browsers.txt dataset and then use the pie() function to draw a pie chart:
browsers<-read.table("browsers.txt",header=TRUE) browsers<-browsers[order(browsers[,2]),] pie(browsers[,2], labels=browsers[,1], clockwise=TRUE, radius=1, col=brewer.pal(7,"Set1"), ...Read now
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