generics {Thresher}

Generic Methods in the Thresher package

Description

New generic functions for threshing and reaping datasets.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
getColors(object, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
getSplit(object, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
getStyles(object, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
scatter(object, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
heat(object, ...)
## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
makeFigures(object, DIR=NULL, ...)

Arguments

object

an object of any class, but typically Thresher, Reaper, or SimThresher.

DIR

a character string containing the name of an existing directory.

...

extra arguments for generic routines.

Details

The methods getColors, getSplit. and getStyles are used to extract the implicit color assignments used in standard plots of objects of the Thresher or Reaper classes.

The heat and scatter methods represent generic heat maps and scatter plots, respectively.

The makeFigures method is to generate a standard suite of figures for an object. If the DIR argument is not NULL, then the figures will be written to the indicated directory in PNG format. Otherwise, the figures will be displayed interactivey on screen, waiting for user input to show each plot.

Value

The form of the value returned by these functions may change depending on the class of its argument. See the documentation of the particular methods for details of what is produced by that method.

The getColors method should return a vector of colors with length equal to the number of columns in a data set.

The getSplit method should return a vector of colors with length equal to the number of rows in a data set.

The heat, scatter, and makeFigures methods are called for their side effects of producing plots.

Author(s)

Kevin R. Coombes [e-mail]

See Also

Thresher, Reaper, and SimThresher.