parallelCoordDescription       package:Rggobi       R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     When creating composite plots in a single display/window, one
     first creates a description of each of the sub-plots (e.g.
     scatterplot, parallel coordinates plot, ash, etc.) and then pass
     these virtual plots to 'plotLayout' to instantiate them and lay
     them out within the display. These functions create the virtual
     plots in the form of a description.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     parallelCoordDescription(..., .data = -1, .gobi=NULL)
     scatterplotDescription(x, y, .data = -1, .gobi=NULL)
     scatmatrixDescription(..., .data = -1, .gobi=NULL)
     ashDescription(x, .data = -1, .gobi=NULL)
     timeseriesDescription(..., .data = -1, .gobi = NULL)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

     x,y: variables to be displayed in the plot, given as  as a name,
          index.

     ...: the names or indices of the variables that are to be
          displayed in the plot.

   .gobi: optional ggobi instance with respect to which the variables
          will be resolved. This can be specified when the plot
          description is realized (e.g. in a call to  'plotLayout')

   .data: the index or name of the dataset  within the ggobi instance
          in which the variable identifiers are to be resolved. 

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     These descriptions are templates for how to create a plot in the
     future. The descriptions can be created before any ggobi is
     created. The idea here is similar to having an expression
     generated by 'quote' or 'expression' that is to be evaluated at a
     subsequent time.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A list containing the arguments and whose class identifies the
     plot type corresponding to which of these description functions
     was invoked.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Duncan Temple Lang

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     <URL: http://www.ggobi.org>, <URL: http://www.ggobi.org/Rggobi>

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'plotLayout'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

       plot4 <- ashDescription("tars2")
       plot5 <- scatmatrixDescription("tars1", "tars2", "head")
       plot6 <- parallelCoordDescription("tars1", "tars2", "head")

