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Answer to StackOverflow How to embed links within a likert


We will use `XML` to add hyperlinks to the axis text.
#creates an example plot from sample data from likert package.
require(likert) 
data(pisaitems)
items29 <- pisaitems[,substr(names(pisaitems), 1,5) ==  "ST25Q" ]
names(items29) <- c("Magazines", "Comic books", "Fiction",
                    "Non-fiction books", "Newspapers")
l29 <- likert(items29)
summary(l29)
plot(l29)

# if possible to use htmltools from RStudio
#   install.packages("htmltools")
#  then we can add the links on the
#  XML side instead of in grid
library(XML)
library(htmltools)
library(gridSVG)

# export as XML SVG
likert_svg <- grid.export("", addClasses=TRUE)$svg

# find our axes
nodes <- getNodeSet(
  likert_svg,
  # thanks http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5818681/xpath-how-to-select-node-with-some-attribute-by-index
  "(//x:g[contains(@id,'axis')])[1]//x:tspan",
  "x"
)

lapply(
  nodes,
  function(node){
    # get the text value of the node
    lbl = xmlValue(node)
    # remove the text from our node
    xmlValue(node) <- ""

    # create a <a href=> hyperlink
    #  https://www.w3.org/wiki/SVG_Links
    a_node <- newXMLNode(
      "a",
      #######   change your link here ###########
      attrs = c("xlink:href"=paste0("http://google.com/search?q=",lbl)),
      lbl
    )
    # add our new linked text to the node
    addChildren(node, a_node)
  }
)


# look at it in the browser/RStudio Viewer
browsable(
  HTML(
    saveXML(
      #  export as SVG XML
      likert_svg,
      prefix = ""
    )
  )
)