| ade4TkGUI {ade4TkGUI} | R Documentation |
Tcl/Tk GUI for the ade4 package
Description
A Tcl/Tk GUI for some basic functions in the ade4 package.
Usage
ade4TkGUI(show = FALSE, history = FALSE)
Arguments
show |
a logical value. If |
history |
a logical value. If |
Details
Right-click on ade4 function buttons to get help on these functions.
You can also click on the questionhead icon in the dialog windows.
This displays the R help for the corresponding function.
In all dialog windows, entries can either be filled with a Set button, or typed
directly in the entry field. The Set button displays a listbox with a list
of available objects in the global environment. This list is restricted to objects
with an adequate type (dataframe, dudi, factor, etc). Entries can also be filled
directly by typing the desired value. In this case, R expressions can also be entered,
for example c("red", "green", "blue"), doubs$mil[1:20,1:5], meau$plan$dat
, or 1:20.
Buttons
The first row of buttons (- Data sets -) is used to load data sets,
either from a tab-delimited text file exported from Excel (Read data file
button), or from the ade4 package built-in datasets (Load a data set button;
right-click to get help on the selected dataset).
The second block of buttons (- One table analyses -) gives access to simple analyses
(like pca), in which only one table is analysed.
The third block (- One table with groups -) is for analyses in which the
rows of the table belong to several groups. This is the case for example for
discriminant analysis (discrimin) and for the within and between
analyses (see ade4 documentation).
The fourth block (- Two tables analyses -) gives access to three analyses
in which the relationships between two data tables are analysed. cca is the well
known (at least in ecology) canonical correspondence analysis, coinertia can be seen
as a robust alternative to cca when the number of samples is low, and pcaiv
is principal components analyses with respect to instrumental variables (see ade4
documentation).
The fifth block (- Graphic functions -) contains three buttons that
launch the dialog windows for three basic graphic functions in ade4 : s.label
(scatter diagram of a factor map), s.class (scatter diagram with groups),
s.value (scatter diagram with squares proportional to one variable).
Other graphic functions are available in the Graphics menu : s.arrow (scatter diagram with arrows),
s.corcircle (correlation circle in normed pca), s.class (scatter diagram with convex hulls, using the
chullSize argument), and s.match (scatter diagram of two paired clouds of points).
The sixth block (- Advanced graphics -) can be used for several things:
- dudi display displays a dialog window grouping all the components of a dudi.
Each of these components is represented by a button which action is to draw a graphical
display of the corresponding component. The axes used to draw theses graphics can be set
by the user. The last row of buttons gives access to particular graphic functions that
can be used according to the dudi type.
- MCTests displays a dialog window for computing Monte-Carlo tests
after (e.g.) a between or coinertia analysis.
- ordiClust displays a dialog window for analysing cluster on ordination scores,
providing a dynamic exploration of the clusters on the factor maps.
Menu bar
The menu bar at the top of the window can be used to launch the same functions, plus several others. All theses menus are tear-off.
The File menu can be used to read and load files and datasets, to edit a dataframe,
and to quit R :
- Read text file allows to read a data file and store the result in a dataframe.
It can be used to read standard Excel tab-delimited text files (with variable names on the
first row and sample names in the first column, leaving the first cell empty).
The name "clipboard" can be used to read a data table just copied from an Excel data sheet
(so it is not necessary to save the data in a text file).
- Load data set allows to load a data set from the ade4 package.
- Edit data frame can be used to edit a dataframe.
- Quit R opens a dialog window to ask if the environment should be saved before
quitting R.
The Windows menu allows to manage several graphical windows :
- New graphic window opens a new graphic window and makes it the active window.
This is usefull to compare easily several graphics.
- Change graphic window changes the active window (i.e., the one into
which the next graphic will be drawn).
- Save graphic window saves the graphic drawn in the active window into
a disk file in several formats (postscript, pdf, etc).
The 1table, 1table+groups, 2tables, and Graphics
menus give access to several other analysis methods and graphics.
History and command line echoing
If the show argument is set to TRUE, then all the commands executed in the GUI are echoed
to the console. This is handy for complex commands, as it allows to check the exact syntax of the
command that was executed.
If the history argument is set to TRUE, then the commands executed in the GUI (the same as
the commands which are echoed to the console) are stored in the R session history buffer. For each
command, the history buffer is written to a temporary disk file with savehistory(), the
command is appended to this file, and the file is reread in memory with loadhistory().
The value (TRUE or FALSE) of both arguments is recalled in the title of the window (ade4TkGUI), so that
different instances of the GUI launched simultaneously with different values for these arguments
can be easily recognized.
Author(s)
Jean Thioulouse jean.thioulouse@univ-lyon1.fr
Stephane Dray stephane.dray@univ-lyon1.fr
Examples
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## Start the GUI
ade4TkGUI()
## End(Not run)