variableInfo             package:Rggobi             R Documentation

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

     Each of these methods create  a description of a variable within a
     GGobi dataset, providing its name, help string, description, any
     levels for categorical variables, ranges for real variables, etc.
     In general, these are not called directly at present. Instead,
     they are used when processing an XML file describing a dataset.

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

     variableInfo(x, ...)
     categoricalVariableInfo(x, ...)
     realVariableInfo(x, ...)
     realVariableInfo.XMLNode(x, ..., numericFields = c("min", "max"))
     categoricalVariableInfo.XMLNode(x, ..., numericFields = c("min", "max"))
     variableInfo.XMLNode(x, ..., className = NULL)

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

       x: 

     ...: 

numericFields: 

className: 

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

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

     An object of class 'CategoricalVariableInfo' or 'RealVariableInfo'
     which extend 'VariableInfo'. The 'VariableInfo' class has basic
     slots 

    name: 

nickname: 

description: 

quickHelp: 

_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>

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

     'xmlDataViewer' 'dataDescriptionHandlers'

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

