[R] Lattice strip labels for two factors

Rafael Duarte rduarte at ipimar.pt
Mon Sep 25 11:05:58 CEST 2006


Dear Gabor and Deepayan,
Many thanks for your help.
I used suggestion 3 from Gabor (it worked well with my long df ) and 
will try Deepayan's suggestion.
Rafael


Deepayan Sarkar wrote:

> On 9/23/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1. You can write a custom strip function:
>>
>>         my.strip <- function(which.given, ..., factor.levels) {
>>            levs <- if (which.given == 1) factor.levels
>>                    else c("faro", "porto", "lisbon", "setubal")
>>            strip.default(which.given, ..., factor.levels = levs)
>>         }
>>
>>         xyplot(value ~ year | fact1 * fact2, data = df,
>>            strip = my.strip)
>>
>> 2. however, its probably easier just to change the levels in
>> the data frame.  Just do it in a copy if you don't want to
>> change the original one:
>>
>>         df2 <- df
>>         levels(df2$fact2) <- c("faro", "porto", "lisbon", "setubal")
>>         xyplot(value ~ year | fact1 * fact2, data = df2)
>>
>> 3. or you can even do it inline in the data statement which
>> similarly won't change the original data frame:
>>
>>         levs <- c("faro", "porto", "lisbon", "setubal")
>>         xyplot(value ~ year | fact1 * fact2,
>>            data = replace(df, "fact2", structure(df$fact2, levels = 
>> levs)))
>>         head(df) # unchanged
>
>
> or even (untested)
>
> xyplot(value ~ year | fact1 * factor(fact2, levels = levels(fact2),
> labels = levs),
>       data = df)
>
> Deepayan
>
>> On 9/23/06, Rafael Duarte <rduarte at ipimar.pt> wrote:
>> > Thank you for your suggestion.
>> > This could be a solution that I didn't think of.
>> >
>> > But I forgot to say that I didn't want to change the original data 
>> frame
>> > (I have other code that depends on the original df and on the original
>> > factor levels).
>> > I was looking more for an implementation directly in the xyplot call
>> > (same as I did for one factor). Is it possible/simple to do?
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Rafael
>> >
>> >
>> > Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>> >
>> > > Try this:
>> > >
>> > > levels(df$fact2) <- c("faro","porto","lisbon","setubal")
>> > > xyplot( value ~ year | fact1*fact2, data=df, type="b")
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On 9/22/06, Rafael Duarte <rduarte at ipimar.pt> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> Dear list,
>> > >> My problem is to change the strip text of lattice panels when 
>> using two
>> > >> factors.
>> > >> I have a data frame with two factors:
>> > >>
>> > >> df <- expand.grid( "fact1"=c("y","b","r"),
>> > >> "fact2"=c("far","por","lis","set"), "year"=1991:2000, "value"= NA)
>> > >> df[,"value"] <- sample(1:50, 120, replace=TRUE)
>> > >>
>> > >> I can make simple xyplot and change the text of the factor 
>> levels with
>> > >> strip.custom:
>> > >>
>> > >> require("lattice")
>> > >> xyplot( value ~ year | fact1, data=df, type="b", subset= 
>> fact2=="far",
>> > >> strip = strip.custom(bg=gray.colors(1,0.95), 
>> factor.levels=c("yellow",
>> > >> "black", "red")),
>> > >> layout=c(1,3)
>> > >> )
>> > >>
>> > >> But how can I change the text of the factor levels when using both
>> > >> factors as in this plot:
>> > >> xyplot( value ~ year | fact1*fact2, data=df, type="b")
>> > >>
>> > >> (fact2 levels text should change to:
>> > >> c("faro","porto","lisbon","setubal"))
>> > >>
>> > >> I read the help for strip.default and the emails archive, tried 
>> with
>> > >> "which.given" but could not find out how to accomplish this.
>> > >>
>> > >> Many thanks,
>> > >> Rafael Duarte
>> > >>
>> > >> --
>> > >> Rafael Duarte
>> > >> Marine Resources Department - DRM
>> > >> IPIMAR -  National Research Institute for Agriculture and Fisheries
>> > >> Av. Brasília, 1449-006 Lisbon  -  Portugal
>> > >> Tel:+351 21 302 7000      Fax:+351 21 301 5948
>> > >> e-mail: rduarte at ipimar.pt
>> > >>
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>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rafael Duarte
>> > Marine Resources Department - DRM
>> > IPIMAR -  National Research Institute for Agriculture and Fisheries
>> > Av. Brasília, 1449-006 Lisbon  -  Portugal
>> > Tel:+351 21 302 7000      Fax:+351 21 301 5948
>> > e-mail: rduarte at ipimar.pt
>> >
>> >
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