[R] scales argument in bwplot (lattice)

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2011-05-18 17:50, Duncan Mackay wrote:
> 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

I agree that latticeExtra has some very nice goodies, but in
this case I don't think that combineLimits answers Harold's
request.

Peter Ehlers

>
> 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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