[R] controlling colour in Trellis histogram

Deepayan Sarkar deepayan at stat.wisc.edu
Fri Oct 1 16:58:56 CEST 2004


On Friday 01 October 2004 09:25, Chuck Cleland wrote:
>    Does this help?
>
> mydata <- data.frame(OPTIMISM =
> c(29,35,26,22,30,37,29,32,25,35,38,33,41,28,40),
>                       PARENTS = rep(c("Both Deceased", "One
> Deceased", "Both Alive"), c(4,5,6)))
>
> library(lattice)
>
> trellis.device(width=7, height=5, new = FALSE, col = FALSE, bg =
> "white")

The bg="white" is redundant if color=FALSE. 

Incidentally, if color=TRUE, setting bg="white" is IMO bad practice 
(although it seemed like a good idea at the time), since it creates 
settings with a white background while the other colors are only 
suitable for a dark background. To make it more difficult for users to 
achieve this, the 'bg' argument has been dropped from trellis.device in 
2.0.0.

Deepayan




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