marginal.plot {latticeExtra}R Documentation

Display marginal distributions

Description

Display marginal distributions of several variables, which may be numeric and/or categorical, on one plot.

Usage

marginal.plot(x,
              data = NULL,
              groups = NULL,
              reorder = !is.table(x),
              plot.points = FALSE,
              ref = TRUE,
              origin = 0,
              xlab = NULL, ylab = NULL,
              type = c("p", if (is.null(groups)) "h"),
              ...,
              subset = TRUE,
              as.table = TRUE,
              subscripts = TRUE,
              default.scales = list(
                relation = "free",
                abbreviate = TRUE, minlength = 5,
                rot = 30, cex = 0.75, tick.number = 3,
                y = list(draw = FALSE)),
             lattice.options = list(
               layout.heights = list(
                 axis.xlab.padding = list(x = 0),
                 xlab.key.padding = list(x = 0))))

Arguments

x a data frame or table, or a formula of which the first term is a data frame or table. Otherwise coerced with as.data.frame.
data an optional data source in which groups and subset may be be evaluated.
groups term, to be evaluated in data, that is used as a grouping variable.
reorder whether to reorder factor variables by frequency.
subset data subset expression, evaluated in data.
plot.points, ref passed to panel.densityplot.
origin, type passed to panel.dotplot.
xlab, ylab, as.table, subscripts see xyplot.
default.scales, lattice.options see xyplot.
... passed to panel.densityplot and/or panel.dotplot.

Details

In the case of mixed numeric and categorical variables, the trellis objects from dotplot() and densityplot() are merged.

Value

a trellis object.

Author(s)

Felix Andrews felix@nfrac.org

See Also

panel.dotplot, panel.densityplot

Examples

enviro <- environmental
## make an ordered factor (so it will not be reordered)
enviro$smell <- cut(enviro$ozone, breaks = c(0, 30, 50, Inf),
    labels = c("ok", "hmmm", "yuck"), ordered = TRUE)
marginal.plot(enviro)

## using groups
enviro$is.windy <- factor(enviro$wind > 10,
    levels = c(TRUE, FALSE), labels = c("windy", "calm"))
marginal.plot(enviro[,1:5], data = enviro, groups = is.windy,
    auto.key = list(lines = TRUE))

## support for tables
marginal.plot(Titanic)
## table with groups
marginal.plot(~ Titanic, data = Titanic, groups = Survived,
    type = "b", auto.key = list(title = "Survived?"))

[Package latticeExtra version 0.6-1 Index]