Demonstrations for Teaching and Learning

Documentation for package ‘TeachingDemos’ version 2.13

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B C D E F G H L M O P R S T U V W Z misc

Various functions for demonstration and learning.

-- B --

bct	Box-Cox Transforms

-- C --

cal	Plot a month or year calendar
ccc	Sample data downloaded and converted from a GPS unit
char2seed	Convert a character string into a random seed
chisq.detail	Print details of a chi-squared test
ci.examp	Plot examples of Confidence Intervals
clipplot	Clip plotting to a rectangular region
clt.examp	Plot Examples of the Central Limit Theorem
cnvrt.coords	Convert between the 5 different coordinate sytems on a graphical device
coin.faces	Designs for coin faces for use with plot.rgl.coin
col2gray	Convert colors to grey/grayscale
col2grey	Convert colors to grey/grayscale
cor.rect.plot	Plot a visualization of the correlation using colored rectangles

-- D --

dice	Simulate rolling dice
digits	Return the digits that make up an integer
dots	Create a quick dotchart (histogram)
dots2	Create a quick dotchart (histogram)
dynIdentify	Interacively place labels for points in a plot

-- E --

emp.hpd	Compute Highest Posterior Density Intervals
etxtComment	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
etxtPlot	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
etxtSkip	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
etxtStart	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
etxtStop	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
evap	Data on soil evaporation.

-- F --

face2.plot	Chernoff Faces
faces	Chernoff Faces
faces2	Chernoff Faces
fagan.plot	Create a Fagan plot to demonstrate Bayes Theorem and screening tests
flip.rgl.coin	Animated die roll or coin flip

-- G --

gp.close	Alpha version functions to send plotting commands to GnuPlot
gp.open	Alpha version functions to send plotting commands to GnuPlot
gp.plot	Alpha version functions to send plotting commands to GnuPlot
gp.send	Alpha version functions to send plotting commands to GnuPlot
gp.splot	Alpha version functions to send plotting commands to GnuPlot

-- H --

h2h	Sample data downloaded and converted from a GPS unit
hpd	Compute Highest Posterior Density Intervals
HTKidentify	Show label for point being Hovered over.
HWidentify	Show label for point being Hovered over.

-- L --

lattice.demo	Interactively explore the conditioned panels in lattice plots.
ldsgrowth	Growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
loess.demo	Demonstrate the internals of loess curve fits

-- M --

mdtxtComment	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
mdtxtPlot	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
mdtxtSkip	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
mdtxtStart	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
mdtxtStop	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
mle.demo	Demonstrate the basic concept of Maximum Likelihood Estimation
ms.arrows	Symbol functions/data to be passed as symb argument to my.symbols
ms.face	Symbol functions/data to be passed as symb argument to my.symbols
ms.female	Symbol functions/data to be passed as symb argument to my.symbols
ms.filled.polygon	Symbol functions/data to be passed as symb argument to my.symbols
ms.image	Symbol functions/data to be passed as symb argument to my.symbols
ms.male	Symbol functions/data to be passed as symb argument to my.symbols
ms.polygon	Symbol functions/data to be passed as symb argument to my.symbols
ms.polygram	Symbol functions/data to be passed as symb argument to my.symbols
ms.sunflowers	Symbol functions/data to be passed as symb argument to my.symbols
my.symbols	Draw Symbols (User Defined) on a Plot

-- O --

oldzoomplot	Zoom or unzoom an existing plot in the plot window
outliers	Outliers data

-- P --

pairs2	Create part of a scatterplot matrix
panel.dice	Simulate rolling dice
panel.my.symbols	Draw Symbols (User Defined) on a Lattice Plot
petals	Play the Petals Around the Rose game
plot.dice	Simulate rolling dice
plot2script	Create a script from the current plot
plotFagan	Create a Fagan plot to demonstrate Bayes Theorem and screening tests
plotFagan.old	Create a Fagan plot to demonstrate Bayes Theorem and screening tests
plotFagan2	Create a Fagan plot to demonstrate Bayes Theorem and screening tests
plotFagan2.old	Create a Fagan plot to demonstrate Bayes Theorem and screening tests
power.examp	Graphically illustrate the concept of power.
power.refresh	Graphically illustrate the concept of power.
Predict.Plot	Plot predicted values from a model against one of the predictors for a given value of the othe predictors
prepanel.dice	Simulate rolling dice
put.points.demo	Demonstrate Correlation and Regression by placing and moving data points
Pvalue.binom.sim	Simulate P-values
Pvalue.norm.sim	Simulate P-values

-- R --

rgl.coin	Animated die roll or coin flip
rgl.die	Animated die roll or coin flip
rgl.Map	Plot a map in an rgl window
roc.demo	Demonstrate ROC curves by interactively building one
roll.rgl.die	Animated die roll or coin flip
rotate.cloud	Interactively rotate 3D plots
rotate.persp	Interactively rotate 3D plots
rotate.wireframe	Interactively rotate 3D plots
run.ci.examp	Plot examples of Confidence Intervals
run.cor.examp	Interactively demonstrate correlations
run.cor2.examp	Interactively demonstrate correlations
run.hist.demo	Create a histogram and interactively change the number of bars.
run.old.cor.examp	Interactively demonstrate correlations
run.old.cor2.examp	Interactively demonstrate correlations
run.power.examp	Graphically illustrate the concept of power.
run.power.examp.old	Graphically illustrate the concept of power.
run.Pvalue.binom.sim	Simulate P-values
run.Pvalue.norm.sim	Simulate P-values

-- S --

SensSpec.demo	Demonstrate Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV, and NPV
shadowtext	Add text to a plot with a contrasting background.
sigma.test	One sample Chi-square test for a population variance
simfun	Create a function to simulate data
slider	slider / button control widgets
sliderv	Create a Tk slider window
SnowsCorrectlySizedButOtherwiseUselessTestOfAnything	Snow's Correctly Sized But Otherwise Useless Test of Anything
SnowsPenultimateNormalityTest	Test the uninteresting question of whether the data represents an exact normal distribution.
spread.labs	Spread out close points for labeling in plots
squishplot	Squish the plotting area to a specified aspect ratio
steps	Steps data
stork	Neyman's Stork data
subplot	Embed a new plot within an existing plot

-- T --

TeachingDemos	Various functions for demonstration and learning.
TkApprox	Plot a set of data in a Tk window and interactively move lines to see predicted y-values corresponding to selected x-values.
tkBrush	Change the Color and Styles of points interactively
TkBuildDist	Interactively create a probability distribution.
TkBuildDist2	Interactively create a probability distribution.
tkexamp	Create Tk dialog boxes with controls to show examples of changing parameters on a graph.
TkIdentify	Interacively place labels for points in a plot
TkListView	Interactivly view structures of list and list like objects.
TkPredict	Plot predicted values from a model against one of the predictors for a given value of the othe predictors
TkSpline	Plot a set of data in a Tk window and interactively move a line to see predicted y-values from a spline fit corresponding to selected x-values.
towork	Sample data downloaded and converted from a GPS unit
tree.demo	Interactively demonstrate regression trees
triplot	Create or add to a Trilinear Plot
txtComment	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
txtSkip	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
txtStart	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
txtStop	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.

-- U --

updateusr	Updates the 'usr' coordinates in the current plot.
USCrimes	US Crime Statistics

-- V --

vis.binom	Plot various distributions then interactivly adjust the parameters.
vis.boxcox	Interactively visualize Box-Cox transformations
vis.boxcox.old	Interactively visualize Box-Cox transformations
vis.boxcoxu	Interactively visualize Box-Cox transformations
vis.boxcoxu.old	Interactively visualize Box-Cox transformations
vis.gamma	Plot various distributions then interactivly adjust the parameters.
vis.normal	Plot various distributions then interactivly adjust the parameters.
vis.t	Plot various distributions then interactivly adjust the parameters.
vis.test	Do a Visual test of a null hypothesis by choosing the graph that does not belong.
vt.normhist	Do a Visual test of a null hypothesis by choosing the graph that does not belong.
vt.qqnorm	Do a Visual test of a null hypothesis by choosing the graph that does not belong.
vt.residpermute	Do a Visual test of a null hypothesis by choosing the graph that does not belong.
vt.residsim	Do a Visual test of a null hypothesis by choosing the graph that does not belong.
vt.scatterpermute	Do a Visual test of a null hypothesis by choosing the graph that does not belong.
vt.tspermute	Do a Visual test of a null hypothesis by choosing the graph that does not belong.

-- W --

wdtxtComment	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
wdtxtPlot	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
wdtxtSkip	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
wdtxtStart	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
wdtxtStop	Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.

-- Z --

z.test	Z test for known population standard deviation
zoomplot	Zoom or unzoom an existing plot in the plot window

-- misc --

%<%	Less than or Less than and equal operators that can be chained together.
%<=%	Less than or Less than and equal operators that can be chained together.