plotParallel: Plots data in parallel coordinates

In HenrikBengtsson/R.basic: [R] Class Library - Stand-alone basic functions [DEPRECATED]

Description

Plots data in parallel coordinates for displaying multidimensional data.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
plotParallel(object, order=NULL, flip=NULL, horizontal=TRUE, col=par("col"), lty=NULL,
  lwd=NULL, ylab="", xlab="", las=2, dim.col="gray", ylim=NULL, ...)

Arguments

object	Object containing the data. Accepted data types are data frames, matrices and list, which are all converted internally by as.data.frame(object).
order	A vector specifying the order in which the dimensions should be plotted. Some dimensions can be excluded. If NULL, all dimensions are plotting in the order they appear in object.
flip	Vector specifying if a dimension should be flipped (inversed) or not. If NULL, no dimensions are flipped.
horizontal	If TRUE the dimensions are plotted along the x-axis, otherwise they are plotted along the y-axis.
col	Vector specifying the line color for each data point.
lty	Vector specifying the line types for each data point.
lwd	Vector specifying the line width for each data point.
xlab, ylab	The labels on the x and the y axis.
las	The rotation of the dimension labels. Default value is 2, which means "always perpendicular to the axis". For more information see par.
dim.col	The colors of the dimension lines.
ylim	A vector of two numbers or a matrix with two rows. The first and the second row corresponds to the lower and the upper cutoff levels, respectively. If a value is NA, it means that the data decides the cutoff level (in that direction).
...	Other parameters accepted by plot.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

References

Wegman, E., (1990). Hyperdimensional Data Analysis Using Parallel Coordinates. Journal of American Statistics Association, 85, 664-675.

See Also

To plot data in three dimensions see plot3d().

Examples

data(freeny)
plotParallel(freeny, order=2:5, flip=c(FALSE,TRUE,FALSE,FALSE))

data(airquality)
r <- range(airquality$Temp, na.rm=TRUE)
tempidx <- floor(99*(airquality$Temp-r[1])/(r[2]-r[1]))+1
col <- heat.colors(100)[tempidx]
r <- range(airquality$Wind, na.rm=TRUE)
windidx <- (airquality$Wind-r[1])/(r[2]-r[1])
lwd <- 2*windidx+1
plotParallel(airquality, order=1:4, col=col, lwd=lwd, horizontal=FALSE)

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