My coworker told me that pie charts never make sense. To prove him wrong I proudly present a fantastic R function that reminds you to spend not too much time on coffee drinking, rss feed reading or whatever else is stealing your time:
GeSHi Error: GeSHi could not find the language r (using path /www/htdocs/w006f92c/blog/wp-content/plugins/codecolorer/lib/geshi/) (code 2)
So timer(someNumber) will result in the following graphical output and the red part will take approximate someNumber seconds to fill the whole pie:
You are still reading? Hmmm… then here also is the code that produced the animated gif above:
GeSHi Error: GeSHi could not find the language r (using path /www/htdocs/w006f92c/blog/wp-content/plugins/codecolorer/lib/geshi/) (code 2)
Execute the code above in R. Then open a shell and produce an animated gif out of the one hundred png files with ImageMagick:
convert -delay 20 -loop 0 timer*.png animatedtimer.gif
P.S.: My wife tells me that she likes pie charts because of the pie… 
Tags: Computer, Programmieren, R, Unsinn
Pacman in red! Pacman in white! Pacman in red! Pacman in white! …
I forgot to tell you that some people have serious troubles with pie charts…