MCDA (version 0.1.0)

plotAlternativesValuesPreorder: Function to plot a preorder of alternatives, based on some score or ranking.

Description

Plots a preorder of alternatives as a graph, representing the ranking of the alternatives, w.r.t. some scores or ranks. A decreasing order or increasing order can be specified, w.r.t. to these scores or ranks.

Usage

plotAlternativesValuesPreorder(
  alternativesValues,
  decreasing = TRUE,
  alternativesIDs = NULL,
  silent = FALSE
)

Value

A character vector with the names of alternatives sorted (invisibly).

Arguments

alternativesValues

A vector containing some values related to alternatives, as scores or ranks. The elements of the vector are named according to the IDs of the alternatives.

decreasing

A boolean to indicate if the alternatives are to be sorted increasingly (FALSE) or decreasingly (TRUE) w.r.t. the alternativesValues.

alternativesIDs

Vector containing IDs of alternatives, according to which the data should be filtered.

silent

A boolean indicating if the order should be printed to the terminal or not. Default is FALSE.

Examples

library(MCDA)

alternativesValues <- c(10,1,8,3,8,3,4,4,8,5)

names(alternativesValues) <- c("x10","x1","x9","x2","x8",
                                "x3","x7","x4","x6","x5")

plotAlternativesValuesPreorder(alternativesValues, 
                                decreasing=TRUE, 
                                alternativesIDs=c("x10","x3","x7",
                                                    "x4","x6","x5"))