Represents a cloud of points with colors
The colorplot
function represents a cloud of points with colors
corresponding to a combination of 1,2 or 3 quantitative variables,
assigned to RGB (Red, Green, Blue) channels. For instance, this can be useful to
represent up to 3 principal components in space. Note that the
property of such representation to convey multidimensional information
has not been investigated.
colorplot
is a S3 generic function. Methods are defined for
particular objects, like spca
objects.
colorplot(...) ## Default S3 method: colorplot(xy, X, axes=NULL, add.plot=FALSE, defaultLevel=0, transp=FALSE, alpha=.5, ...)
xy |
a numeric matrix with two columns (e.g. a matrix of spatial coordinates. |
X |
a matrix-like containing numeric values that are translated into the RGB system. Variables are considered to be in columns. |
axes |
the index of the columns of X to be represented. Up to three axes can be chosen. If null, up to the first three columns of X are used. |
add.plot |
a logical stating whether the colorplot should be added to the existing plot (defaults to FALSE). |
defaultLevel |
a numeric value between 0 and 1, giving the default level in a color for which values are not specified. Used whenever less than three axes are specified. |
transp |
a logical stating whether the produced colors should be transparent (TRUE) or not (FALSE, default). |
alpha |
the alpha level for transparency, between 0 (fully
transparent) and 1 (not transparent); see |
... |
further arguments to be passed to other methods. In
|
Invisibly returns a vector of colours used in the plot.
Thibaut Jombart t.jombart@imperial.ac.uk
# a toy example xy <- expand.grid(1:10,1:10) df <- data.frame(x=1:100, y=100:1, z=runif(100,0,100)) colorplot(xy,df,cex=10,main="colorplot: toy example") ## Not run: # a genetic example using a sPCA if(require(spdep)){ data(spcaIllus) dat3 <- spcaIllus$dat3 spca3 <- spca(dat3,xy=dat3$other$xy,ask=FALSE,type=1,plot=FALSE,scannf=FALSE,nfposi=1,nfnega=1) colorplot(spca3, cex=4, main="colorplot: a sPCA example") text(spca3$xy[,1], spca3$xy[,2], dat3$pop) mtext("P1-P2 in cline\tP3 random \tP4 local repulsion") } ## End(Not run)
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