DescTools (version 0.99.14)

PlotFaces: Chernoff Faces

Description

Plot Chernoff faces. The rows of a data matrix represent cases and the columns the variables.

Usage

PlotFaces(xy, which.row, fill = FALSE, nrow, ncol, 
          scale = TRUE, byrow = FALSE, main, labels, print.info=FALSE, col=NA)

Arguments

xy
xy data matrix, rows represent individuals and columns attributes.
which.row
defines a permutation of the rows of the input matrix.
fill
logic. If set to TRUE, only the first nc attributes of the faces are transformed, nc is the number of columns of x.
nrow
number of columns of faces on graphics device
ncol
number of rows of faces
scale
logic. If set to TRUE, attributes will be normalized.
byrow
if(byrow==TRUE), x will be transposed.
main
title.
labels
character strings to use as names for the faces.
print.info
if TRUE information about usage of variables for face elements are printed.
col
a vector of colors used for the parts of the faces. Default is NA, which will omit colors.

Value

  • a plot of faces is created on the graphics device, no numerical results

code

faces

Details

The features paramters of this implementation are:
  • 1
{height of face} 2{width of face} 3{shape of face} 4{height of mouth} 5{width of mouth} 6{curve of smile} 7{height of eyes} 8{width of eyes} 9{height of hair} 10{width of hair} 11{styling of hair} 12{height of nose} 13{width of nose} 14{width of ears} 15{height of ears}

References

Chernoff, H. (1973) The use of faces to represent statistiscal assoziation, JASA, 68, pp 361--368. The smooth curves are computed by an algorithm found in: Ralston, A. and Rabinowitz, P. (1985) A first course in numerical analysis, McGraw-Hill, pp 76ff. http://www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~wolf/: S/R - functions : faces

Examples

Run this code
PlotFaces(rbind(1:3,5:3,3:5,5:7))

data(longley)
PlotFaces(longley[1:9,])

set.seed(17)
PlotFaces(matrix(sample(1:1000,128,),16,8),main="random faces")

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