glyph-dot: The dot glyph create a graphic of a single data point as a dot on the graphic between the lowest and highest values.
Description
The dot glyph creates a simple dot at the point on the graphic at the specified data point from the column name or number provided in the col1 row in panelDest data.frame in the statsDFrame data.frame. The range of the data provided is used to set the range of the X-Axis and the dot is plotted in line with the associated area's color in the group/row. If the median consist of only a single area and dot, only one area row is plotted. The col1 data must be numeric values and can be used to sort the order of the areas using the sortVar call parameter.
Arguments
Value
None
Author
Jim Pearson, StatNet Consulting, LLC, Gaithersburg, MD
Details
The col1 variable for the glyph column in panelDesc parameter links to the data column containing the dot value the statsDFrame data.frame. j is used to index into panelDesc to get the user specified lab1, lab2, lab3, lab4, refval, and reftxt information to create the column headers, trailers, and reference information. An X-axis is drawn above and below the column based on the data provided in the col1 column of the statsDFrame by the user.
For the dot glyph, the col1 value of the column name/numbers in the statsDFrame data.frame must be provided. The data values must be numeric.
This glyph routine creates both the "dot" and "dotsignif" graphs. If the dsignif call parameter is set to FALSE, the function will not check for col2 and associated data in the statsDFrame for pvalues to check the significance of the dot value data. If TRUE, the function creates the dotsignif glyph creation.
panelDesc rows not used by the glyph should be set to NA. The "dot" glyph does not use thecol2, col3, panelData, and parm rows in the panelDesc data.frame.
The following is an example of a section of a boxplot glyph column in a linked micromap:
The statsDFrame and panelDesc data.frames reside in the global environment and automatically accessible to the process along with several other major structures.
See Also
micromapST