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. 2014 Jul 1;3:147. [Version 1] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.4460.1

Table 3. Charts and arguments.

Chart Type Prefix Argument Description
Bar Chart
Simple bar chart. Multiple charts
may be combined to get both up
and down values. Accepts all of the
common arguments.
barchart separation= value The separation between bars
Circos chart
Circos plots (more properly donut
or ring charts) use many of the
standard values except range,
scale, and ybase. Also note that
attributelist should be a list of List
attributes in you intend to have
more than one ring.
circoschart arcstart= value
arcwidth= value
firstarc= value

firstarcwidth= width
labelcircles=
      [ true | false]
sortslices=
      [ true | false]
The start of each circle in degrees
The thickness of each of the rings
The start of the first arc as a proportion of the
entire node
The width of the first arc
If true label each circle

If true sort the slices from largest to smallest
Heat strip chart
Heatstrip charts provide an up/
down bar graph with each bar
colored as a gradient to reflect
the values. Colorlist is interpreted
differently for these charts
heatstripchart colorlist=
       gradient keyword|
       updown colors



separation= value
Current gradient keywords include:
yellowcyan, yellowblue, orangepurple,
bluegreenyellow, purpleyellow,
greenpurple, redyellow, and if you
absolutely must: redgreen. See Table 2 for a
description of updown colors.
The separation between bars
Line chart
Simple line graph. Accepts the
standard arguments
linechart linewidth= value The width of the lines on the plot
Pie chart
Simple pie chart. Accepts all
standard values except textbfrange,
scale, and ybase.
Stripe chart
Very simple chart that breaks the
node into n colors determined by
the colorlist argument. No other
arguments are used.
piechart



stripechart
arcstart= value
sortslices=
      [ true | false]
The start of each circle in degrees
If true sort the slices from largest to smallest