longCatEDA (version 0.17)

colChoose: Internal Function for Selecting Color Schemes Used by longCatPlot

Description

Internal function used by longCatPlot.

Usage

colChoose(colScheme, nfactors, reverse = FALSE)

Arguments

colScheme

can be one of

• 'gray' = a grayscale spectrum
• 'rainbow' see rainbow
• 'heat' see heat.colors
• 'terrain' see terrain.colors
• 'topo' see topo.colors
• 'cm' see cm.colors

No default is given in the function definition, but the default in longCatPlot passed to colChoose is 'heat'.

nfactors

see nfactors in values returned by longCat.

reverse

logical - should color scheme be applied in reverse order to the levels of the categorical variable? Default is FALSE. See reverse input to longCatPlot.

References

Tueller, S. J., Van Dorn, R. A., and Bobashev, G. V. (2013). Visualization of Categorical Longitudinal and Times Series Data. Manuscript Under Review.

See Also

longCatPlot.

Examples

# color examples
par(mfrow=c(2,3), bg='wheat')
times <- c(1,100,200,300,400,500)
f3lc <- longCat( example3, times, Labels=rep('',5) )
longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colScheme=gray', colScheme='gray', 
  lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colScheme=rainbow', colScheme='rainbow', 
  lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colScheme=heat', colScheme='heat', 
  lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colScheme=terrain', colScheme='terrain', 
  lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colScheme=topo', colScheme='topo', 
  lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colScheme=cm', colScheme='cm', 
  lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
par(mfrow=c(1,1), bg='transparent')

## Not run: 
# # illustrate the use of colors from the package RColorBrewer
# library(RColorBrewer)
# par(mfrow=c(2,3), bg='cornsilk3')
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='RColorBrewer: Blues', cols=brewer.pal(f3lc$nfactors, "Blues"), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='RColorBrewer: Greens', cols=brewer.pal(f3lc$nfactors, "Greens"), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='RColorBrewer: PuBuGn', cols=brewer.pal(f3lc$nfactors, "PuBuGn"), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='RColorBrewer: YlOrRd', cols=brewer.pal(f3lc$nfactors, "YlOrRd"), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='RColorBrewer: Spectral', cols=brewer.pal(f3lc$nfactors, "Spectral"), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='RColorBrewer: Accent', cols=brewer.pal(f3lc$nfactors, "Accent"), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# par(mfrow=c(1,1), bg='transparent')
# 
# # illustrate the use of colors from the package colorspace
# library(colorspace)
# par(mfrow=c(2,3), bg='cornsilk3')
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colorspace: rainbow_hcl', cols=rainbow_hcl(f3lc$nfactors), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colorspace: sequential_hcl', cols=sequential_hcl(f3lc$nfactors), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colorspace: heat_hcl', cols=heat_hcl(f3lc$nfactors), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colorspace: terrain_hcl', cols=terrain_hcl(f3lc$nfactors), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colorspace: diverge_hcl', cols=diverge_hcl(f3lc$nfactors), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# longCatPlot(f3lc, main='colorspace: diverge_hsv', cols=diverge_hsv(f3lc$nfactors), 
#             lwd=.1, ylab='', legendBuffer = .25)
# par(mfrow=c(1,1), bg='transparent')
# ## End(Not run)