Spider-Webs

Generates spider-web like plot. Spider webs may look cool, but they are terrible to interpret. You should think of using a bar chart to represent the same information. You have been warned.

plotSpiderWebs(dstat, symbols = c(17, 16, 15, 4, 8), cglcol = "black",
  legend = TRUE, legend.cex = 0.7, legend.pos.x = "bottomright",
  legend.pos.y = NA, legend.horizontal = FALSE, pcol = qd.colors,
  ...)

Arguments

dstat	A data frame containing data, e.g., output from dictionaryStatistics()
symbols	Symbols to be used in the plot
cglcol	The color for the spider net
legend	Whether to print a legend
legend.cex	Scaling factor for legend
legend.pos.x	X position of legend
legend.pos.y	Y position of legend
legend.horizontal	Whether to print legend horizontally or vertically
pcol	The line color(s)
...	Miscellaneous arguments to be given for radarchart().

Value

No value is returned.

Note

radar charts and spider web plots are dangerous, they can easily become misleading. They are in this package for historic reasons, but should not be used anymore.

Examples

data(rksp.0)
fnames <- c("Krieg", "Liebe", "Familie", "Ratio","Religion")
ds <- dictionaryStatistics(rksp.0, normalizeByField=TRUE,
                           fieldnames=fnames)
plotSpiderWebs(ds)
#> Warning: spider webs may look cool, but they are terrible to interpret. You should think of using a bar chart to represent the same information. You have been warned.