(This article was first published on One R Tip A Day, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
Stumbling across the R-help mailing-list I found, as often happens, two threads in the spirit of this blog (of course, since they come from the list, the quality is higher): here you can find a function allowing a shadow outline style for a text in a plot. From here you can follow an interesting thread depicting how to produce bumps charts in R.To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on his blog: One R Tip A Day.
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
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