Schotter Plots in R (opens in new tab)

Translating things between languages reveals how each language approaches different design trade-offs, and I believe it’s a useful exercise. Having something to translate is the first step. I found a plot I wanted to generate, and some code that reproduced it, so off we go! I don’t recall how I originally found this page (I didn’t keep a note on it, it seems) and this has been sitting on my to-be-posted-about pile for way too long, so here’s the post I’ve been meaning to write. That post deta...