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gvisTimeline

Google Timeline Chart with R

Description

A timeline is a chart that depicts how a set of resources are used over time. One popular type of timeline is the Gantt chart.

Usage

gvisTimeline(
  data,
  rowlabel = "",
  barlabel = "",
  start = "",
  end = "",
  options = list(),
  chartid
)

Arguments

`data`	data.frame that contains the data to be visualised
`rowlabel`	a string that referes to the column name in `data` for the row labels to be used
`barlabel`	a string that referes to the column name in `data` for the bar labels to be used
`start`	number, date or datetime for the start dates
`end`	number, date or datetime for the end dates
`options`	list of configuration options. The options are documented in detail by Google online: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/timeline#Configuration_Options The parameters can be set via a named list. The parameters have to map those of the Google documentation. Boolean arguments are set to either `TRUE` or `FALSE`, using the R syntax. Google API parameters with a single value and with names that don't include a "." are set like one would do in R, that is `options=list(width=200, height=300)`. Exceptions to this rule are the width and height options for `gvisAnnotatedTimeLine` and `gvisAnnotationChart`. For those two functions, width and height must be character strings of the format `"Xpx"`, where `X` is a number, or `"automatic"`. For example, `options=list(width="200px", height="300px")`. Google API parameters with names that don't include a ".", but require multivalues are set as a character, wrapped in "[ ]" and separated by commas, e.g. `options=list(colors="['#cbb69d', '#603913', '#c69c6e']")` Google API parameters with names that do include a "." present parameters with several sub-options and have to be set as a character wrapped in " ". The values of those sub-options are set via parameter:value. Boolean values have to be stated as `'true'` or `'false'`. For example the Google documentaion states the formating options for the vertical axis and states the parameter as `vAxis.format`. Then this paramter can be set in R as: `options=list(vAxis="{format:'#,###%'}")`. If several sub-options have to be set, e.g. `titleTextStyle.color`, `titleTextStyle.fontName` and `titleTextStyle.fontSize`, then those can be combined in one list item such as: `options=list(titleTextStyle="{color:'red', fontName:'Courier', fontSize:16}")` paramters that can have more than one value per sub-options are wrapped in "[ ]". For example to set the labels for left and right axes use: `options=list(vAxes="[{title:'val1'}, {title:'val2'}]")` `gvis.editor` a character label for an on-page button that opens an in-page dialog box enabling users to edit, change and customise the chart. By default no value is given and therefore no button is displayed. For more details see the Google API documentation and the R examples below.
`chartid`	character. If missing (default) a random chart id will be generated based on chart type and `tempfile`

Value

gvisTimeline returns list of class "gvis" and "list". An object of class "gvis" is a list containing at least the following components:

type

Google visualisation type

chartid

character id of the chart object. Unique chart ids are required to place several charts on the same page.

html

a list with the building blocks for a page

header

a character string of a html page header: <html>...<body>,

chart

a named character vector of the chart's building blocks:

jsHeader: Opening <script> tag and reference to Google's JavaScript library.
jsData: JavaScript function defining the input data as a JSON object.
jsDrawChart: JavaScript function combing the data with the visualisation API and user options.
jsDisplayChart: JavaScript function calling the handler to display the chart.
jsFooter: End tag </script>.
jsChart: Call of the jsDisplayChart function.
divChart: <div> container to embed the chart into the page.

caption

character string of a standard caption, including data name and chart id.

footer

character string of a html page footer: </body>...</html>, including the used R and googleVis version and link to Google's Terms of Use.

Author(s)

Markus Gesmann markus.gesmann@gmail.com

References

Google Chart Tools API: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/timeline

Examples

dat <- data.frame(Term=c("1","2","3"),
                  President=c("Whasington", "Adams", "Jefferson"),
                  start=as.Date(x=c("1789-03-29", "1797-02-03", "1801-02-03")),
                  end=as.Date(x=c("1797-02-03", "1801-02-03", "1809-02-03")))

tl <- gvisTimeline(data=dat[,-1], rowlabel="President", 
                   start="start", end="end")
plot(tl)

tl <- gvisTimeline(data=dat, barlabel="President", 
                   start="start", end="end")
plot(tl)

tl <- gvisTimeline(data=dat, rowlabel="President", 
                   start="start", end="end",
                   options=list(timeline="{showRowLabels:false}"))
plot(tl)

dat <- data.frame(Position=c(rep("President", 3), rep("Vice", 3)),
                  Name=c("Washington", "Adams", "Jefferson",
                         "Adams", "Jefferson", "Burr"),
                  start=as.Date(x=rep(c("1789-03-29", "1797-02-03", "1801-02-03"),2)),
                  end=as.Date(x=rep(c("1797-02-03", "1801-02-03", "1809-02-03"),2)))

tl <- gvisTimeline(data=dat, rowlabel="Name",barlabel="Position", 
                   start="start", end="end",
                   options=list(timeline="{showRowLabels:true}"))
plot(tl)

tl <- gvisTimeline(data=dat, rowlabel="Name",barlabel="Position", 
                   start="start", end="end",
                   options=list(timeline="{groupByRowLabel:false}",
                                backgroundColor='#ffd', height=350,
                                colors="['#cbb69d', '#603913', '#c69c6e']"))

plot(tl)

# Datetime example 
dat <- data.frame(Room=c("Room 1","Room 2","Room 3"),
                  Language=c("English", "German", "French"),
                  start=as.POSIXct(c("2014-03-14 14:00", "2014-03-14 15:00", 
                                     "2014-03-14 14:30")),
                 end=as.POSIXct(c("2014-03-14 15:00", "2014-03-14 16:00", 
                                  "2014-03-14 15:30")))
tl <- gvisTimeline(data=dat, rowlabel="Language",
                   start="start", end="end")
plot(tl)

## Not run: 
require(timeline)
data(ww2)
timeline(ww2, ww2.events, event.spots=2, event.label='', event.above=FALSE)
ww2$Person <- gsub("\\n" ," ", ww2$Person)
plot(gvisTimeline(ww2, barlabel="Person", rowlabel="Group",
                  start="StartDate", end="EndDate",
     options=list(width=600, height=350))
)

## End(Not run)

googleVis

R Interface to Google Charts

v0.6.10

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Markus Gesmann [aut, cre], Diego de Castillo [aut], Joe Cheng [ctb], Ashley Baldry [ctb], Durey Ingeniería [ctb]

Initial release

2021-02-19