plotrix (version 2.6-1)

plot.dendrite: Plot a dendrogram of a dendrite object.

Description

Plot a dendrogram for two or more mutually exclusive attributes.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'dendrite':
plot(x,xlabels=NULL,main="",mar=c(1,0,3,0),cex=1,...)

Arguments

x

A dendrite object containing the counts of objects having combinations of mutually exclusive attributes.

xlabels

The category labels that will be displayed beneath the dendrogram.

main

The title of the plot.

mar

Margins for the plot.

cex

Character expansion for the leaves of the dendrogram.

...

Additional arguments passed to plot.

Value

• nil

Details

plot.dendrite sets up a plot for a dendrogram. The actual plotting of the dendrogram is done by furc.

See Also

furc

Examples

sex<-sample(c("M","F"),100,TRUE)
 hair<-sample(c("Blond","Black","Brown","Red"),100,TRUE)
 eye<-sample(c("Blue","Black","Brown","Green"),100,TRUE)
 charac<-data.frame(sex=sex,hair=hair,eye=eye)
 characlist<-makeDendrite(charac)
 plot.dendrite(characlist,names(charac),main="Test dendrogram",cex=0.8)