Hmisc (version 3.17-4)

latexDotchart: Enhanced Dot Chart for LaTeX Picture Environment with epic

Description

latexDotchart is a translation of the dotchart3 function for producing a vector of character strings containing LaTeX picture environment markup that mimics dotchart3 output. The LaTeX epic and color packages are required. The add and horizontal=FALSE options are not available for latexDotchart, however.

Usage

latexDotchart(data, labels, groups=NULL, gdata=NA, xlab='', auxdata, auxgdata=NULL, auxtitle, w=4, h=4, margin, lines=TRUE, dotsize = .075, size='small', size.labels='small', size.group.labels='normalsize', ttlabels=FALSE, sort.=TRUE, xaxis=TRUE, lcolor='gray', ...)

Arguments

data
a numeric vector whose values are shown on the x-axis
labels
a vector of labels for each point, corresponding to x. If omitted, names(data) are used, and if there are no names, integers prefixed by "#" are used.
groups
an optional categorical variable indicating how data values are grouped
gdata
data values for groups, typically summaries such as group medians
xlab
x-axis title
auxdata
a vector of auxiliary data, of the same length as the first (data) argument. If present, this vector of values will be printed outside the right margin of the dot chart. Usually auxdata represents cell sizes.
auxgdata
similar to auxdata but corresponding to the gdata argument. These usually represent overall sample sizes for each group of lines.
auxtitle
if auxdata is given, auxtitle specifies a column heading for the extra printed data in the chart, e.g., "N"
w
width of picture in inches
h
height of picture in inches
margin
a 4-vector representing, in inches, the margin to the left of the x-axis, below the y-axis, to the right of the x-axis, and above the y-axis. By default these are computed making educated cases about how to accommodate auxdata etc.
lines
set to FALSE to suppress drawing of reference lines
dotsize
diameter of filled circles, in inches, for drawing dots
size
size of text in picture. This and the next two arguments are LaTeX font commands without the opening backslash, e.g., 'normalsize', 'small', 'large', smaller[2].
size.labels
size of labels
size.group.labels
size of labels corresponding to groups
ttlabels
set to TRUE to use typewriter monospaced font for labels
sort.
set to FALSE to keep latexDotchart from sorting the input data, i.e., it will assume that the data are already properly arranged. This is especially useful when you are using gdata and groups and you want to control the order that groups appear on the chart (from top to bottom).
xaxis
set to FALSE to suppress drawing x-axis
lcolor
color for horizontal reference lines. Default is "gray"
...
ignored

See Also

dotchart3

Examples

Run this code
## Not run: 
# z <- latexDotchart(c(.1,.2), c('a','bbAAb'), xlab='This Label',
#                    auxdata=c(.1,.2), auxtitle='Zcriteria')
# f <- '/tmp/t.tex'
# cat('\documentclass{article}\n\usepackage{epic,color}\n\begin{document}\n', file=f)
# cat(z, sep='\n', file=f, append=TRUE)
# cat('\end{document}\n', file=f, append=TRUE)
# 
# set.seed(135)
# maj <- factor(c(rep('North',13),rep('South',13)))
# g <- paste('Category',rep(letters[1:13],2))
# n <- sample(1:15000, 26, replace=TRUE)
# y1 <- runif(26)
# y2 <- pmax(0, y1 - runif(26, 0, .1))
# z <- latexDotchart(y1, g, groups=maj, auxdata=n, auxtitle='n', xlab='Y',
#                    size.group.labels='large', ttlabels=TRUE)
# f <- '/tmp/t2.tex'
# cat('\documentclass{article}\n\usepackage{epic,color}\n\begin{document}\n\framebox{', file=f)
# cat(z, sep='\n', file=f, append=TRUE)
# cat('}\end{document}\n', file=f, append=TRUE)
# ## End(Not run)

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