[RkWard-devel] stem-and-leaf plot

[SJR]

Am Dienstag, 27. Februar 2007 00:21 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> On Monday 26 February 2007 23:27, Stefan Roediger wrote:
> > What is the best way to give a proper output of stem {graphics},
> > stem.leaf {Rcmdr} or HTMLstem {R2HTML}.
> > I mean is rk.results usable?
>
> I'm afraid, not really.
>
> stem directly produces output, instead of creating an object. So that's the
> main problem. Also, rk.results() isn't designed to handle this sort of
> pre-formatted output.
>
> HTMLstem solves the issue by first capturing the output of stem using
> capture.output(), and then printing it inside <pre></pre>.
>
> I think, there's no way around using capture.output() to get the result of
> stem in a usable form. For printing, I've added the simple function
> rk.print.literal(x)
> which directs to the output inside of <pre></pre> (but will be extensible
> to support other output formats). So the call would be e.g.
> rk.print.literal(capture.output(stem(islands)))
>

Great! I'll report this week. The stem-and-leaf plot was on my personal ToDo 
list since a couple of months but I never started because I had no idea how 
to start. Anyway, we will see.

> Regards
> Thomas

Stefan