Interactive Plot Utility

Plots with emphasis on interactive plots.

Usage

interactivePlot(x, choices = paste("Plot", 1:9), 
    plotFUN = paste("plot.", 1:9, sep = ""), which = "all", ...)

Arguments

x

an object to be plotted.

choices

a character vector of length at most 9, giving descriptive names of the plots for the menu presented to the user.

plotFUN

a vector of the same length as choices, containing functions and/or names of functions. plotFUN[[i]] is called to produce the plot corresponding to choice[i].

which

Which graph(s) should be displayed? One of the character strings "ask" (ask the user) or "all" (produce all plots), or a logical vector in which the positions of the TRUE values designating the plots to produce.

...

additional arguments passed to the FUN or plot function. (2023-10-21 GNB: currently the "..." arguments are not really passed on to the plotting functions.)

Details

If "which" is the character string "ask", then the user is presented with a menu to interactively choose which plot(s) to show. Argument choices is used for the choices in the menu, so they should be informative.

If "which" is equal to "all" all plots are drawn. If "which" is a logical vector, the indicate plots are displayed.

Note that if more plots are to be shown in one window, the arrangement should be made in advance (and cleaned up afterwards), see the examples.

Examples

## Test Plot Function
testPlot <- function(x, which = "all", ...) {   
    ## Plot Function and Addons
    plot.1 <<- function(x, ...) plot(x, ...)      
    plot.2 <<- function(x, ...) acf(x, ...)
    plot.3 <<- function(x, ...) hist(x, ...)      
    plot.4 <<- function(x, ...) qqnorm(x, ...)
    ## Plot
    interactivePlot(
        x,
        choices = c("Series Plot", "ACF", "Histogram", "QQ Plot"),
        plotFUN = c("plot.1", "plot.2", "plot.3", "plot.4"),
        which = which, ...)       
    ## Return Value
    invisible()
}

## Plot
## prepare the window and store its previous state
op <- par(mfrow = c(2, 2), cex = 0.7)
## produce the plot
testPlot(rnorm(500))            

## restore the previous state
par(op)

## Try:
## par(mfrow = c(1,1))
## testPlot(rnorm(500), which = "ask")

## similar to above but using functions for plotFUN
testPlot_2 <- function(x, which = "all", ...) {   
    interactivePlot(
        x,
        choices = c("Series Plot", "ACF", "Histogram", "QQ Plot"),
        plotFUN = c(plot.1 = function(x, ...) plot(x, ...),
                    plot.2 = function(x, ...) acf(x, ...),
                    plot.3 = function(x, ...) hist(x, ...),
                    plot.4 = function(x, ...) qqnorm(x, ...) ),
        which = which, ...)       
   
    ## Return Value:
    invisible()
}
## produce the plot
op <- par(mfrow = c(2, 2), cex = 0.7)
testPlot_2(rnorm(500))            

par(op)