[R] Changing Variable Names In VCD

[Achim Zeileis]

Simon:

> What is the most efficient way to change the plotted variable names in 
> mosaic plots in the vcd package? Should one do a separate contingency 
> table first, change the dimension names there and then pass that to 
> mosaic? Or is there a way to do it simply within mosaic.
> I was thinking something like:
> mosaic(~var1+var2, labelling_args=list(varnames=c('newvar1', 'newvar2'))

Almost. The default labeling function is labeling_border which does take a 
varnames argument but this should be logical (should labels be drawn or 
not?). The argument set_varnames can be used to set the varnames to 
different strings, e.g.,

mosaic(~ Gender + Admit, data = UCBAdmissions,
   labeling_args = list(set_varnames = list(Gender = "Foo", Admit = "Bar")))

I hope this is what you're looking for.

Best,
Z

> Simon Kiss
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