googleVis (version 0.7.3)

gvisPieChart: Google Pie Chart with R googleChartName <- "piechart" gvisChartName <- "gvisPieChart"

Description

The gvisPieChart function reads a data.frame and creates text output referring to the Google Visualisation API, which can be included into a web page, or as a stand-alone page. The actual chart is rendered by the web browser using SVG or VML.

Usage

gvisPieChart(data, labelvar = "", numvar = "", options = list(), chartid)

Value

paste(gvisChartName) returns list of class

paste(readLines(file.path(".", "inst", "mansections", "gvisOutputStructure.txt")))

Arguments

data

a data.frame to be displayed as a pie chart

labelvar

Name of the character column which contains the category labels for the slice labels.

numvar

a vector of column names of the numerical variables of the slice values.

options

list of configuration options for Google Pie Charts, see:

gsub("CHARTNAME", googleChartName, readLines(file.path(".", "inst", "mansections", "GoogleChartToolsURLConfigOptions.txt")))

paste(readLines(file.path(".", "inst", "mansections", "gvisOptions.txt")))

chartid

character. If missing (default) a random chart id will be generated based on chart type and tempfile

Author

Markus Gesmann ,

Diego de Castillo

References

Google Chart Tools API: gsub("CHARTNAME", googleChartName, readLines(file.path(".", "inst", "mansections", "GoogleChartToolsURL.txt")))

See Also

See also print.gvis, plot.gvis for printing and plotting methods

Examples

## Please note that by default the googleVis plot command
## will open a browser window and requires an internet
## connection to display the visualisation.

Pie1 <- gvisPieChart(CityPopularity)
plot(Pie1)

## Doughnut chart - a pie with a hole
Pie2 <- gvisPieChart(CityPopularity, options=list(
                    slices="{4: {offset: 0.2}, 0: {offset: 0.3}}",
                    title='City popularity',
                    legend='none',
                    pieSliceText='label',
                    pieHole=0.5))
plot(Pie2)