ABSTRACT

The basic concepts of interacting with graphics such as selections and queries have been introduced in Chapter 1. There are far more interactions, mostly changing the parametrization of a plot. Several more plot specific interactions have been used in the previous chapter without explicitly mentioning them. Switching a barchart to a spineplot (compare Figure 3.1), a histogram to a spinogram (compare Figure 3.6), or changing a mosaic plot from the default view to the model of independence (see Figure 4.4) are all interactions which should be just a single click or keystroke away, without the need to recreate the “same” plot with different plot parameters.