All these panel...
functions generate glyphs using z
inputs and plot these
at the associated (x, y) location. So, for example a called which used one of the panels
and the plot formula:
z1 + z2+ z3 + z4 ~ x * y
... would plot a series of glyphs, each containing four elements that would be scaled
according to z1
, z2
, z3
and z4
, and each at the associated
(x, y) location. This means there will be one discrete glyph for each row of data supplied
to the plot call.
panel.zcasePiePlot
generates a series of x/y referenced pie graphs. By default, pie
dimensions are assigned as: Pie size (radius) proportional to sum of z cases and scaled using
cexHandler
(z1 + z2 + z3 + z4 for the above formula); Number of Pie segments
equal to number of z cases (so, 4 for the above formula); Pie segment width (phi) proportional to
the individual zcase (so, z1 / (z1 + z2 + z3 + z4) * 360 for first pie segment for the above
formula).
panel.zcasePieSegmentPlot
is a variation on the conventional pie plot where segement radius
rather than segment width is varying by zcase.