newGeoTable: Functions to create a new object of class 'geoTable'

In sparkTable: Sparklines and Graphical Tables for TeX and HTML

Description

User-function to create objects of the class 'geoTable'.

Usage

  newGeoTable(dataObj, tableContent, varType, geographicVar, geographicInfo=NULL)

Arguments

dataObj	a data frame containing information to be plotted.
tableContent	a list with elements of class 'sparkline','sparkbox','sparkbar' or 'function'
varType	a character vector containing variable names existing in dataObj.
geographicVar	a character variable of length 1 with a variable name of dataObj that holds regional information.
geographicInfo	if specified, a data.frame containing 3 columns. first column: row-indices second column: column-indices third column: regional codes

Author(s)

Bernhard Meindl, Alexander Kowarik, Statistics Austria

See Also

export

Examples

  ## Not run: 
  ###Example EU population and debt
  data(popEU,package="sparkTable")
  data(debtEU,package="sparkTable")
  data(coordsEU,package="sparkTable")
  popEU <- popEU[popEU$country%in%coordsEU$country,]
  debtEU <- debtEU[debtEU$country%in%coordsEU$country,]
  EU <- cbind(popEU,debtEU[,-1])
  EUlong <- reshapeExt(EU,idvar="country",v.names=c("pop","debt"),
    varying=list(2:13,14:25),geographicVar="country",timeValues=1999:2010)
  l <- newSparkLine()
  l <- setParameter(l, 'lineWidth', 2.5)
  content <- list(function(x){"Population:"},l,function(x){"Debt:"},l)
  varType <- c(rep("pop",2),rep("debt",2))
  xGeoEU <- newGeoTable(EUlong, content, varType,geographicVar="country",
    geographicInfo=coordsEU)
  
## End(Not run)

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