R: table methods for barchart and dotplot

B_02_barchart.table {lattice} | R Documentation

## table methods for barchart and dotplot

### Description

Contingency tables are often displayed using bar charts and dot plots. These methods operate directly on tables, bypassing the need to convert them to data frames for use with the formula interface. Matrices and arrays are also supported, by coercing them to tables.

### Usage

    ## S3 method for class 'table'
    barchart(x, data, groups = TRUE,
             origin = 0, stack = TRUE, ..., horizontal = TRUE)

    ## S3 method for class 'array'
    barchart(x, data, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'matrix'
    barchart(x, data, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'table'
    dotplot(x, data, groups = TRUE, ..., horizontal = TRUE)

    ## S3 method for class 'array'
    dotplot(x, data, ...)

    ## S3 method for class 'matrix'
    dotplot(x, data, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | A `table`, `array` or `matrix` object.
`data` | Should not be specified. If specified, will be ignored with a warning.
`groups` | A logical flag, indicating whether to use the last dimension as a grouping variable in the display.
`origin, stack` | Arguments to `panel.barchart`. The defaults for the `table` method are different.
`horizontal` | Logical flag, indicating whether the plot should be horizontal (with the categorical variable on the y-axis) or vertical.
`...` | Other arguments, passed to the underlying `formula` method.

### Details

The first dimension is used as the variable on the categorical axis. The last dimension is optionally used as a grouping variable (to produce stacked barcharts by default). All other dimensions are used as conditioning variables. The order of these variables cannot be altered (except by permuting the original argument beforehand using `t` or `aperm`). For more flexibility, use the formula method after converting the table to a data frame using the relevant `as.data.frame` method.

### Value

An object of class `"trellis"`. The `update` method can be used to update components of the object and the `print` method (usually called by default) will plot it on an appropriate plotting device.

### Author(s)

Deepayan Sarkar Deepayan.Sarkar@R-project.org

### See Also

`barchart`, `t`, `aperm`, `table`, `panel.barchart`, `Lattice`

### Examples

    barchart(Titanic, scales = list(x = "free"),
             auto.key = list(title = "Survived"))

[Package lattice version 0.20-6 Index]