glyph-mapxxxx: The collection of map glyphs creates a graphic of a micromap plots.
Description
REWRITE The map collection of glyphs generate small maps from the boundary group for use in creating the linked micromaps and the statistical plots of the data. The collection of map glyphs do not use any values from the col1, col2, col3, lab1, lab2, lab3, lab4, reftxt, and refval, panelData, and parm vectors in the panelDesc. If any of there are present in the panelDesc data.frame, they value should be set to "NA". Each map is drawn in a single group/row section of the graphic representing up to 5 areas. A color is assigned to each "ACTIVE" area that is presented and carried over to the associated graphic in the columns on the left or right of the map.
Arguments
Value
None
Author
Jim Pearson, StatNet Consulting, LLC, Gaithersburg, MD
Details
The only call parameter is j carrying the graphic column number being drawn. j is used by all of the panel functions to scale, outline, and select the area within the total graphic page to draw a column of the map glyphs, one per group/row.
The map collection consist of four ways the maps are used to present the area information moving down the page.
1) Map - is a simple map with out any extra areas colored in. Only the "active" areas being presented in the graphics on either side are colored. The same color is used in the statistical graphic to line the area to the data.
2) MapCum - is map, is the same as the "MAP" glypic, but after an area has been referenced, it is colored yellow to let the user know the area was presented in a group/row above as seen in the following figure:
3) MapTail - this map is the same as the MapCum in that it accumulate areas that have been presented. However, at the median point, the areas shaded are changed to the areas that have not been presented before to area to be repesented. As the graphics continue, the number of yellow area decreases. In the last row, only the presented states are colored and no area are colored yellow.
The other half of the tail leading away from the median can been seen in the lower maps.
4) MapMedian - this map colors all of the areas with values above the median (as sorted) a very pale red. All of the areas below the median are colored a vary pale blue. The areas being presented are still colored with a unique color and linked to the statistical graphic using that color.
This figure shows maps above the median point:
This figure shows what the map looks like below the median point:
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