Add non-primitive glyphs to a scatterplot or graph display

Generic method for adding user-defined glyphs. See details for more information about non-primitive and primitive glyphs.

l_glyph_add(widget, type, ...)

Arguments

widget	widget path as a string or as an object handle
type	object used for method dispatch
...	arguments passed on to method

Value

String with glyph id. Every set of non-primitive glyphs has an id (character).

Details

The scatterplot and graph displays both have the n-dimensional state 'glyph' that assigns each data point or graph node a glyph (i.e. a visual representation).

Loon distinguishes between primitive and non-primitive glyphs: the primitive glyphs are always available for use whereas the non-primitive glyphs need to be first specified and added to a plot before they can be used.

The primitive glyphs are:

The non-primitive glyph types and their creator functions are:

Type	R creator function
Text	l_glyph_add_text
Serialaxes	l_glyph_add_serialaxes
Pointranges	l_glyph_add_pointrange
Images	l_glyph_add_image
Polygon	l_glyph_add_polygon

When adding non-primitive glyphs to a display, the number of glyphs needs to match the dimension n of the plot. In other words, a glyph needs to be defined for each observations. See in the examples.

Currently loon does not support compound glyphs. However, it is possible to cunstruct an arbitrary glyph using any system and save it as a png and then re-import them as as image glyphs using l_glyph_add_image.

For more information run: l_help("learn_R_display_plot.html#glyphs")

See also

l_glyph_add_text, l_make_glyphs

Other glyph functions: l_glyph_add.default(), l_glyph_add_image(), l_glyph_add_pointrange(), l_glyph_add_polygon(), l_glyph_add_serialaxes(), l_glyph_add_text(), l_glyph_delete(), l_glyph_getLabel(), l_glyph_getType(), l_glyph_ids(), l_glyph_relabel(), l_primitiveGlyphs()

Examples

if(interactive()){

# Simple Example with Text Glyphs
p <- with(olive, l_plot(stearic, eicosenoic, color=Region))
g <- l_glyph_add_text(p, text=olive$Area, label="Area")
p['glyph'] <- g

if (FALSE) {
demo("l_glyphs", package="loon")
}

# create a plot that demonstrates the primitive glyphs and the text glyphs
p <- l_plot(x=1:15, y=rep(0,15), size=10, showLabels=FALSE)
text_glyph <- l_glyph_add_text(p, text=letters [1:15])
p['glyph'] <- c(
    'circle', 'ocircle', 'ccircle',
    'square', 'osquare' , 'csquare',
    'triangle', 'otriangle', 'ctriangle',
    'diamond', 'odiamond', 'cdiamond',
    rep(text_glyph, 3)
)
}