# How to Use makePlots

# Overview

This vignette describes the usage of the `makePlots()` function.

`makePlots` is a function to generate the plots as seen in the GUI outside of it, so they can be saved and shared. Plots that have random or non deterministic outcomes have a seed set so they can be reproduced.

`makePlots` has got the same inputs as pandemonium (see “Data input for pandemonium”) with the exception for settings. This replaces the GUI in the app with one named list to define all settings. Two other small differences in the input to the function are as follows. `CovInv` is specified for each space. Coordinate functions cannot be passed as a named list instead the functions themselves are passed as `getCoordsSpace1` and `getCoordsSpace2`.

# settings

The named list `settings` has some values that must be specified for every call to `makePlots` while others are optional or only required for certain plots. The required values for every call are as follows:

Settings | Description
--- | ---
`k=` | Numeric, number of clusters
`linkage=` | Linkage used by `stats::hclust`
`metric=` | Metric used by `getDists`
`plotType` | Plot to create. Each type and their required settings are described below.

> `linkage` can be one of the following: “complete”, “single”, “average”, “median”, “centroid”, “mcquitty”, “ward.D”, “ward.D2”

> `metric` can be one of the following: “euclidean”, “maximum”, “manhattan”, “canberra”,“binary”, “minkowski”,“user”

## Plot specific settings

Each `plotType` has got its own required settings. For each plot type these are described as follows:

Plot | Description | Required settings
--- | --- | ---
“PC” | Parallel coordinate plot | `filt=` subset of 1:k (number of clusters) to show in the plot. `centre=` `TRUE` or `FALSE`: should centred coordinates be plotted. `scale=` `TRUE` or `FALSE`: should scaled coordinates be plotted.
“WC” | Plot of clustering on axes from space 2 | `x=`,`y=` column names of space 2 to be drawn `showalpha=` TRUE or FALSE to show alpha hulls `WCa=` alpha value for alpha hulls
“chi2” | Plot of score on axes from space 2 | `x=`,`y=` column names of space 2 to be drawn Note that a function that returns values must be passed in `getScores`
“sigBins” | Plot of bins on axes from space 2 | `x=`,`y=` column names of space 2 to be drawn Note that a function that returns bins must be passed in `getScores`
“heatmap” | Ordered dendrogram plot of clustering | no additional parameters
cluster stats | Plot of cluster stat vs number of clusters | One of the following is what is given as `plotType`: “within.cluster.ss”, “wb.ratio”,“pearsongamma”, “dunn”, “ch”, “rmax”, “dmax” “dmin”, “dchi2rand”
“Obs” | Plot space 1 variable on axes from space 2 | `Obs=` name of variable from space 1 ``x=`,`y=` column names of space 2 to be drawn

The following plotTypes are for high dimension views:

#### “tour”

A `detourr` tour of the high dimensional space.

Settings | Description
--- | ---
`tourspace=` | One of “space1” or “space2” to show data of in tour
`colouring=` | How to colour points in the plot. One of “clustering”, “user”, “bins”, “score”
`user_group=` | User defined grouping for each point used if “user” is passed for `colouring`
`out_dim=` | Dimension of output display. Numeric, possible values are 2 or 3
`tour_path=` | Tour path and type to use, one of “grand”,“cmass”,“holes”,“lda”,“pda”,“dcor”,“origin”,“spline”,“radial”,“mahalanobis”,“anomaly”
`display=` | Display type, one of “scatter”,“slice”
`radial_start=` | Projection to use as start of radial tour, one of “random”,“cmass”,“holes”,“lda”,“pda”,“dcor”,“origin”,“spline”,“mahalanobis”
`radial_var=` | Variable to remove by radial tour
`slice_width=` | Relative slice volume. Numeric
`seed` | Set the seed for the function

#### “dimRed”

A dimension reduction view of the high dimensional space.

Settings | Description
--- | ---
`dimspace=` | One of “space1” or “space2” to use
`colouring=` | How to colour points in the plot. One of “clustering”, “user”, “bins”, “score”
`user_group=` | User defined grouping for each point used if “user” is passed for `colouring`
`algorithm=` | Name of algorithm used for dimension reduction
`dimReduction` | Function for calculating dimension reduction see “using dimension reduction” for more details
`seed` | Set the seed for the function