[R] Lattice xyplot: same scales within one factor

OB o.borderline at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 20:20:31 CEST 2009


Thank you! I ended up hunting down a few previous posts you made and getting
it to to work, although yes, it was not pretty.

-Orion

On 8/3/09 10:30 am, "Deepayan Sarkar" <deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:33 AM, OB<o.borderline at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am using R 2.8.1 and lattice to produce xyplots conditioned on
>> two factors. What I would like is to have the scales be free between values
>> of one factor, but some within. Thus, in this example,
>> 
>> xyplot(mpg ~ disp | factor(gear) + factor(cyl), mtcars,
>>         scales=list(x=list(relation="free")))
>> 
>> rather than having the x scales be free within a gear as well, I want it to
>> be the same for the gear, but free between cyl (and thus only have x scales
>> below the bottom panels with no scales or white space in the middle between
>> panels).
> 
> Per-variable scales are not supported by lattice. You can sort of fake
> it by providing explicit limits and playing around with spacing, but
> it's fairly ugly.
> 
> -Deepayan




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