[RkWard-devel] Pareto chart and Quality qontrol charts

[I. Soumpasis]

2007/2/25, Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de
>:
>
> On Friday 23 February 2007 22:50, I. Soumpasis wrote:
> > Yes it seems good. I will try it.
>
> Thanks. I'm much happier with the plugin, now. Maybe make this option
> checked
> by default, as I think this will be desired more often than not (but I'll
> leave that decision up to you).


I believe that is should be left as is four 2 main reasons (apply to barplot
too):
1. The normal behaviour of both functions and what user should wait from
them is to use the data without the table or summary function, so maybe it
would get confused. User expects  (or should expect)  a specific
functionality from the function and we give him something else if we have as
default the tabulate option.
2. Te table or summary is one step, so user should do one click more
respectively.

I believe that neither of the plugins should have a tabulate option and
doing that kind of "magic". I agree with you that was (and is) confusing
because does more things than it should be expected to do. Normally a user
should make a new variable tablex<-table(x) and use this variable with the
plot commands.

The above gave me one idea. In some time in the future we could do a set of
plugins doing tabulate, transpose, changing properties of objects etc. In a
case like this tabulate option should not be useful, as the user should do
that from editing data. User should follow this more typical way so to
understand and know what he is doing. First edit to data in a way that is
meaningful and then plot it or generally make statistics with it.

As I saw some proprietary applications give some of this functionality.

What do you think about it?

> Probably this apply to the barplot too or
> > should we leave it as is?
>
> Yes, I think it would be useful for the barplot, too.
>

I will look at it in the next few days.

Regards,
Ilias
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