hexVP-class {hexbin} | R Documentation

## Formal class "hexVP" of a Hexagon Viewport

### Description

Hexagon Viewports are “value-added” grid viewports (see `viewport`) where the extra slots contain scaling and “embedding” information. A hexViewport is created my taking the available area in the cuurent viewport on the graphics device and maximizing the amount of area with a fied aspect ratio. The default when the shape parameter is 1, is a 1:1 aspect ratio in terms of the size of the viewport, not the scale of the x and y axis. The plotting area is centered within the existing margins and the maximum size determined. Extra area is then allocated to the margins. This viewport is replicated twice, once with clipping set to "on" and once with clipping "off". This feature can be used for toggling clipping on and off while editing the plot.

### Objects from the Class

Objects are typically created by calls to `hexViewport()` or by low level calls of the form `new("hexVP", ...)`.

### Slots

`hexVp.off`:
  Object of class `"viewport"` with clipping set to off, see `viewport`.
`hexVp.off`:
  Object of class `"viewport"`, with the same dimensions and parameters as hexVp.off, but with clipping set to on, see `viewport`.
`mar`:
  `unit` vector of four margins (typically in `"lines"`).
`fig`:
  `unit` vector of two figure sizes (typically in `"npc"`).
`plt`:
  `unit` vector of two figure sizes (typically in `"npc"`).
`xscale`:
  numeric of length two specifying x-range.
`yscale`:
  numeric of length two specifying y-range.

### Methods

These are methods accessing the slots of corresponding name.

getFig
  `signature(hvp = "hexVP")`: ...
getMargins
  `signature(hvp = "hexVP")`: ...
getPlt
  `signature(hvp = "hexVP")`: ...
getXscale
  `signature(hvp = "hexVP")`: ...
getYscale
  `signature(hvp = "hexVP")`: ...

### Author(s)

Nicholas Lewin-Koh kohnicho@comp.nus.edu.sg.

### See Also

The constructor function `hexViewport`. `hexbin`, and its S4 plotting method, `gplot.hexbin`.

### Examples

     example(hexViewport, echo=FALSE)
     ## continued:
     str(P$plot.vp)

[Package hexbin version 1.4.0 Index]