I have tried to implement the following *chart using R through this **example and this ***tip. *http://www.marca.com/2012/03/02/multimedia/graficos/1330720526.html **http://flowingdata.com/2010/11/23/how-to-make-bubble-charts/ ***http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9574960/how-i-can-define-the-limits-of-a-bar-using-geom-bar-in-r The recreation is very similar to the original :)