[R] Adding text to strip in xYplot

John Poulsen jpoulsen at zoo.ufl.edu
Wed Apr 9 19:56:00 CEST 2008


Hello Christoph,

Oops, I see that the factor.levels function is in the help menu for 
strip.default.  I had tried it, but not specified it correctly.

Thanks again for you help,
John

Christoph Meyer wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> a solution to your problem would be using strip.custom like this:
> 
> ...
> with(dat,xYplot(Cbind(ycomb, y.up, y.low)~x1|factor(grp), 
> data=dat,type="l", method="bands", 
> scales=list(y=list(relation="free"),x=list(alternating=c(1,1,1))),
> ylim=list(c(0,1200),c(0,10000)),
> strip=strip.custom(factor.levels=c(expression("Anls km"^2),expression("Plants km"^2)))))
> 
> Best wishes,
> Christoph
> 
> 
> Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 2:39:09 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> Hello again,
> 
>> I have been trying to add an expression to the strips in xYplot to no 
>> avail.  For example, in the code below, the text in the strips for each
>> panel is "Anls" and "Plts".  However, I would like it to add "Anls km^2"
>> and "Plants km^2" with the exponents raised.
> 
>> I tried resetting the name of my groups in the dataframe before 
>> plotting, but the dataframe only recognized the entire expression (e.g.
>> expression(paste("Anls", km^2,sep=" ")) and not Anls km2 - which should
>> not have surprised me.
> 
>> Any ideas?  Thanks for any help you can provide.
> 
>> John
> 
>> x1=rseq(1,30,0.5)
>> y1=x1^2
>> y2=10*(x1^2)
>> ycomb=c(y1,y2)
>> y.up=ycomb+0.1*ycomb
>> y.low=ycomb-0.1*ycomb
>> grp=rep(c("Anls","Plts"),each=length(x1)))
>> dat=as.data.frame(cbind(ycomb, y.up, y.low, rep(x1,2)),stringsAsFactors=F)
>> colnames(dat)=c("ycomb","y.up","y.low","x1")
> 
>> with(dat,xYplot(Cbind(ycomb, y.up, y.low)~x1|factor(grp), 
>> data=dat,type="l", method="bands",
>> scales=list(y=list(relation="free"),
>>        
>> x=list(alternating=c(1,1,1))),ylim=list(c(0,1200),c(0,10000))))
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