R: Visual Inspection of Binary Incidence Matrices

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## Visual Inspection of Binary Incidence Matrices

### Description

Provides the S4 methods `image` to generate level plots to visually inspect binary incidence matrices, i.e., objects based on `itemMatrix` (e.g., transactions, tidLists, items in itemsets or rhs/lhs in rules). These plots can be used to identify problems in a data set (e.g., recording problems with some transactions containing all items).

### Usage

    ## S4 method for signature 'itemMatrix'
    image(x,
        xlab = "Items (Columns)",
        ylab = "Elements (Rows)", ...)

    ## S4 method for signature 'transactions'
    image(x,
        xlab = "Items (Columns)",
        ylab = "Transactions (Rows)", ...)

    ## S4 method for signature 'tidLists'
    image(x,
        xlab="Transactions (Columns)",
        ylab="Items/itemsets (Rows)", ...)

### Arguments

`x` | the object (`itemMatrix`, `transactions` or `tidLists`).
`xlab, ylab` | labels for the plot.
`...` | further arguments passed on to `image` in package Matrix which in turn are passed on to `levelplot` in lattice.

### Author(s)

Michael Hahsler

### See Also

`image` (for `dgTMatrix` in Matrix), `levelplot` (in lattice), `itemMatrix-class`, `transactions-class`, `tidLists-class`

### Examples

    data("Epub")

    ## in this data set we can see that not all
    ## items were available from the beginning.
    image(Epub[1:1000])

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