stagger {textBoxPlacement}

stagger

Description

unclutter the overlay plot by staggering the graphs

Usage

stagger(xList, yList, tList, sortB = FALSE, verbose)

Arguments

xList

list whose components are numeric vectors of the x values for overlaid curves

yList

list whose components are numeric vectors of the y values for overlaid curves

tList

list of character string texts to insert in plot

sortB

Boolean if TRUE staggered curves reordered, with largest range curve on bottom of graph

verbose

Boolean if TRUE print informative or diagnostic messages to console

Details

In order to unclutter the overlay plot, we need to stagger the graphs the offset for each graph will be the sum of the max values for all of the preceding graphs. So the stack of staggered graphs will have max y (ie, ymax) equal to the sum of the max's.

Value

returns a list whose components are:

• textBoxHeights return value of textBoxUserUnits()

• permInd return value of permInd()

• xlim numeric vector parameter for plot()

• ylim numeric vector parameter for plot()

Examples

# demonstrate effect of sorting the curves

plot.new()

stagger(xList2,yList2,textList,sortB=FALSE,verbose=TRUE)

stagger(xList2,yList2,textList,sortB=TRUE,verbose=TRUE)