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PlotArea: Create an Area Plot

Description

Produce a stacked area plot, or add polygons to an existing plot.

Usage

# S3 method for default
PlotArea(x, y = NULL, prop = FALSE, add = FALSE, xlab = NULL,
         ylab = NULL, col = NULL, frame.plot = FALSE, ...)

# S3 method for formula PlotArea(formula, data, subset, na.action, ...)

Value

Matrix of cumulative sums that was used for plotting.

Arguments

x

numeric vector of x values, or if y=NULL a numeric vector of y values. Can also be a 1-dimensional table (x values in names, y values in array), matrix or 2-dimensional table (x values in row names and y values in columns), a data frame (x values in first column and y values in subsequent columns), or a time-series object of class ts/mts.

y

numeric vector of y values, or a matrix containing y values in columns.

prop

whether data should be plotted as proportions, so stacked areas equal 1.

add

whether polygons should be added to an existing plot.

xlab

label for x axis.

ylab

label for y axis.

col

fill color of polygon(s). The default is a vector of gray colors.

frame.plot

a logical indicating whether a box should be drawn around the plot.

formula

a formula, such as y ~ x or cbind(y1, y2) ~ x, specifying x and y values. A dot on the left-hand side, formula = . ~ x, means all variables except the one specified on the right-hand side.

data

a data frame (or list) from which the variables in formula should be taken.

subset

an optional vector specifying a subset of observations to be used.

na.action

a function which indicates what should happen when the data contain NA values. Defaults to getOption("na.action").

...

further arguments are passed to matplot and polygon.

Author

Arni Magnusson <thisisarni@gmail.com>

See Also

barplot, polygon, areaplot

Examples

Run this code
# PlotArea with stapled areas
tab <- table( d.pizza$date, d.pizza$driver )
PlotArea(x=as.Date(rownames(tab)), y=tab, xaxt="n", xlab="Date", ylab="Pizzas delivered" )

# add x-axis and some text labels
xrng <- pretty(range(as.Date(rownames(tab))))
axis(side=1, at=xrng, labels=xrng)
text( x=min(d.pizza$date + .5, na.rm=TRUE), y=cumsum(tab[2,])-2.5, label=levels(d.pizza$driver),
  adj=c(0,0.5), col=TextContrastColor(gray.colors(7)))


# formula
PlotArea(Armed.Forces~Year, data=longley)
PlotArea(cbind(Armed.Forces,Unemployed)~Year, data=longley)

# add=TRUE
plot(1940:1970, 500*runif(31), ylim=c(0,500))
PlotArea(Armed.Forces~Year, data=longley, add=TRUE)

# matrix
PlotArea(WorldPhones)
PlotArea(WorldPhones, prop=TRUE, col=rainbow(10))

# table
PlotArea(table(d.pizza$weekday))
PlotArea(table(d.pizza$weekday, d.pizza$driver))

# ts/mts
PlotArea(austres)
PlotArea(Seatbelts[,c("drivers","front","rear")],
         ylab="Killed or seriously injured")
abline(v=1983+1/12, lty=3)

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