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The adegraphics package is a complete reimplementation of the
graphical functionalities of the ade4 package [@Dray2007]. The package
has been initially designed to improve the representation of the outputs
of multivariate analyses performed with ade4 but as its graphical
functionalities are very general, they can be used for other purposes.
The adegraphics package provides a flexible environment to produce,
edit and manipulate graphs. We adopted an object oriented approach (a
graph is an object) using S4 classes and methods and used the
visualization system provided by the lattice [@Sarkar2008] and grid
[@Murrell2005] packages. In adegraphics, graphs are R objects that can
be edited, stored, combined, saved, removed, etc.
Note that we tried to facilitate the handling of adegraphics by ade4
users. Hence, the name of functions and parameters has been preserved in
many cases. The main changes are listed in the appendix of this vignette
so that it should be quite easy to use adegraphics. However, several
new functionalities (graphical parameters, creation and manipulation of
graphical objects, etc.) are now available and detailed in this
vignette.
The adelist mailing list can be used to send questions and/or comments
on adegraphics (see https://listes.univ-lyon1.fr/sympa/info/adelist)