[R] scales argument in bwplot (lattice)

[Duncan Mackay]

Hi Peter

A little late but catching up

see ? combineLimits from the latticeExtra package

a very welcome addition in particular when combined with 
useOuterStrips with multiple conditioning

Regards

Duncan

Duncan Mackay
Department of Agronomy and Soil Science
University of New England
ARMIDALE NSW 2351
Email: home mackay at northnet.com.au

At 01:29 18/05/2011, you wrote:
>On 2011-05-17 06:50, Doran, Harold wrote:
>>Suppose I have data such as the following
>>
>>set.seed(12345)
>>tmp<- data.frame(var1 = rnorm(100), var2 = rnorm(100), 
>>var3=rnorm(100, 10, 30))
>>
>>tmp1<- data.frame(vars = with(tmp, c(var1, var2, var3)), type = gl(3, 100))
>>
>>var3 is on a different scale, but I create the following plot, 
>>which looks terrible as a result
>>
>>bwplot(~ vars|type, tmp1,
>>                  layout = c(1,3),
>>)
>>
>>Of course, I can use the scales = 'free' argument and this looks fine.
>>
>>bwplot(~ vars|type, tmp1,
>>                  scales = 'free',
>>                  layout = c(1,3),
>>)
>>
>>My real world data are a little tougher to describe, but follow
> > a similar pattern. My question is, is there a way to make the
> > bottom two boxplots to have the *same* scale, but for the top
> > plot to have its own unique scale?
>>
>>The scales = 'free' argument permits for each plot to have its
> > own scale. Perhaps there is a way to generalize this so only
> > certain plots have a unique scale and all others are on the
> > same scale.
>
>Does this help:
>
>   bwplot(~ vars|type, layout = c(1,3), data=tmp1
>     , scales = 'free'
>     , xlim=list(c(-3,3), c(-3,3), c(-60,90))
>   )
>
>There's a comment on ?xyplot in the scales section:
>
>  "When relation is "free", xlim or ylim can be a list, ..."
>
>Peter Ehlers
>
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Harold
>>
>>
>>>sessionInfo()
>>R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
>>Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>>locale:
>>[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United 
>>States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>
>>attached base packages:
>>[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>>other attached packages:
>>[1] lattice_0.19-13
>>
>>loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>[1] grid_2.12.0  tools_2.12.0
>>
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