plotmap, map.identify, and the
levelplot methods internally use the same gateway
function to levelplot. Thus
transform.factor can be used with all of them and
the panel function defaults to
panel.levelplot.raster for all
three. Two special column names, .rownames and
.wavelength may be used. levelplot plots the spectra matrix.
plotvoronoi calls plotmap with different
default settings, namely the panel function defaults to
panel.voronoi.
panel.voronoi depends on
either of the packages 'tripack' or 'deldir' being
installed. For further information, please consult the
help page of panel.voronoi.
On the chondro data set, plotmap is
roughly 5 times faster than plotvoronoi using
tripack, and ca. 15 times faster than plotvoronoi
using deldir. Package tripack, however, is free only for
non-commercial use. Also, it seems that tripack version
hang (R running at full CPU power, but not responding nor
finishing the calculation) for certain data sets. In this
case, mix = TRUE may help.
map.identify calls plotmap and
plotvoronoi, respectively and waits for (left)
mouse clicks on points. Other mouse clicks end the input.
Unlike panel.identify, the indices
returned by map.identify are in the same order as
the points were clicked. Also, multiple clicks on the
same point are returned as multiple entries with the same
index.
map.identify uses option debuglevel similar
to spc.identify: debuglevel == 1
will plot the tolerance window if no data point was
inside (and additionally labels the point) while
debuglevel == 2 will always plot the tolerance
window.
The map.sel.* functions offer further interactive
selection, see map.sel.poly.