tabplot (version 1.3-3)

tablePrepare: Prepares a dataset for tableplotting

Description

Tableplots from a large dataset can be generated very fast when the preprocessing stage is done only once. This function preprocesses the dataset, and returns an object that can be passed to tableplot. From this stage, tableplots are generated very fast, no matter on which column the data is sorted or how many row bins are chosen.

Usage

tablePrepare(x, name = NULL, dir = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

data.frame or ffdf, will be transformed into an ffdf object.

name

name of the dataset

dir

directory to store the prepared object. If unspecified, the prepared object will not be saved, and the underlying data will be stored temporarily in options("fftempdir").

...

arguments passed to other methods (at the moment only overwrite from savePrepare)

Value

a prepared object, including the data and order of each of the columns

Details

The function bin_data needs a prepared data.frame Prepare transforms the supplied data into an ffdf object and calculates the order of each of its columns. Knowing the order of the columns speeds up the binning process consideratly, For large ffdf objects this may be a time consuming step so it can be wise to call prepare before making a tableplot.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# load diamonds dataset from ggplot2
require(ggplot2)
data(diamonds)

p <- tablePrepare(diamonds)

tableplot(p, nBins=200, sortCol=depth)
tableplot(p, nBins=50, sortCol=price)

close(p)
# }