Re: guiPlot within a function

["F Z" <gerifalte28@hotmail.com>]

Hi  manuela

Why do you need to use the GUI plot functions?  As far as I know, all the 
GUI plot functions are based on a lower level function that you can call 
from the command line.  Read the chapter on graphics in the Programmer's 
Guide file (under help) for more details on the graphing capabilities of 
S-Plus using the command line.

Let me know if you need further help.

Francisco

> From: "Huso, Manuela" <manuela.huso@oregonstate.edu>
> To: <s-news@lists.biostat.wustl.edu>
> Subject: [S] guiPlot within a function
> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:04:22 -0800
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I need to make many plots of different data sets with similar structure.
> I want to pass the dataset name to the guiPlot function within my
> function.  Here is a simple case:
>
>
>
> I have several data frames similar to biasR10, differing only in the
> biasa value:
>
> > biasR10
>
>     decline demise detection  biasa
>
>  1   StepUp     25       0.1  0.015
>
>  2   FullUp     25       0.1  0.013
>
>  3   Flat50     25       0.1  0.004
>
>  4    Flat0     25       0.1  0.015
>
>  5 FullDown     25       0.1  0.004
>
>  6 StepDown     25       0.1  0.000
>
>  7   StepUp     25       0.5  0.057
>
>  8   FullUp     25       0.5  0.045
>
>  9   Flat50     25       0.5  0.004
>
> 10    Flat0     25       0.5  0.057
>
> 11 FullDown     25       0.5  0.004
>
> 12 StepDown     25       0.5  0.000
>
> 13   StepUp     25       0.8  0.073
>
> 14   FullUp     25       0.8  0.055
>
> 15   Flat50     25       0.8 -0.011
>
> 16    Flat0     25       0.8  0.073
>
> 17 FullDown     25       0.8 -0.004
>
> 18 StepDown     25       0.8  0.000
>
> 19   StepUp     50       0.1  0.024
>
> 20   FullUp     50       0.1  0.001
>
> 21   Flat50     50       0.1 -0.020
>
> 22    Flat0     50       0.1  0.005
>
> 23 FullDown     50       0.1 -0.022
>
> 24 StepDown     50       0.1 -0.019
>
> 25   StepUp     50       0.5  0.079
>
> 26   FullUp     50       0.5 -0.002
>
> 27   Flat50     50       0.5 -0.094
>
> 28    Flat0     50       0.5  0.012
>
> 29 FullDown     50       0.5 -0.107
>
> 30 StepDown     50       0.5 -0.067
>
> 31   StepUp     50       0.8  0.095
>
> 32   FullUp     50       0.8 -0.006
>
> 33   Flat50     50       0.8 -0.138
>
> 34    Flat0     50       0.8  0.014
>
> 35 FullDown     50       0.8 -0.150
>
> 36 StepDown     50       0.8 -0.081
>
>
>
> When I run the following code, it works fine.
>
> guiPlot( PlotType = "Bar Zero Base", DataSet = "biasR10", Columns =
> "decline,biasa") guiModify( "Graph2D", Name = "GS1$1", PanelType =
> "Condition",
>
>      ConditionColumns = "demise,detection", TrellisConditionDS =
> "biasR10")
>
>
>
> But I would like to imbed this code in a function (so I can do many
> plots quickly) and pass the data set, the columns and the conditioning
> columns as arguments.  I am stumped as to the syntax needed to recognize
> character variables, and so am asking your help.
>
>
>
> I tried just the first part (with no conditioning) with many variations
> on the theme using as.character, reassigning dataset within the
> function, etc.  I tried Krause and Olson's suggestion for "Using
> function arguments in graphics labels" using the deparse(substitute(x))
> but apparently incorrectly.  I have looked in the programmer's guide but
> not found what I need, although I imagine it is there somewhere :-)
>
>
>
> So, I am appealing to you all.  Many thanks in advance for this remedial
> help.
>
>
>
> Manuela
>
>
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> Manuela Huso
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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