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Modify the selected component

Source: R/interactive-ggproto.R
selection.Rd

Set which elements (i.e., observations) are "selected". These will be shown as highlighted in the plot using the current "highlight" colour (see loon::l_userOptions).

Usage

selection(selected = NULL, selectBy = NULL, selectionLogic = NULL)

Arguments

selected

a logical or a logical vector of length n that determines which observations are selected (TRUE and hence appear highlighted in the plot) and which are not. Default is FALSE and no points are highlit.

selectBy

A string determining how selection will occur in the interactive plot. Default is "sweeping" where a rectangular region is reshaped or "swept" out to select observations.; alternately "brushing" will indicate that a fixed rectangular region is moved about the display to select observations.

selectionLogic

One of "select" (the default), "deselect", and "invert". The first highlights observations as selected, the second downlights them, and the third inverts them (downlighting highlit observations and highlighting downlighted ones).

Value

a ggproto object

Details

There are two ways to directly select elements on, for example, a scatterplot using the mouse: either by "sweeping" or by "brushing". "Sweeping" allows us to sweep out a contiguous rectangular area of the plot, while, by "brushing", a fixed rectangular area is brushes across the plot selecting all points within the rectangle.

The selection logic give users more flexibility to users to not only highlight the elements, but also to downlight, and even to invert selections (changing the highlighted to downlighted, and vice versa).

See also

active, linking, zoom, hover, interactivity, loon::l_userOptions

Examples

if(interactive()) {

  # highlight the four gear cars
  fourGear <- rep(FALSE, nrow(mtcars))
  fourGear[mtcars$gear == 4] <- TRUE

  l_ggplot(mtcars, mapping = aes(x = wt, y = hp, color = factor(cyl))) +
    geom_point(size = 4) +
    # push the states of scatter plot to the histogram
    selection(selected = fourGear)
}