[R] adding text to the top corner of a lattice plot

[Rajarshi Guha]

This (and Gabors) solutions work great. Thanks to everybody for helping out

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:24 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:26 PM, David Winsemius
>> <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I have a series of lattice plots which I am arranging in a 2x2
>>>> grid via print:
>>>>
>>>> print(p.preds, split=c(1,1, 2,2), more=TRUE)
>>>> print(p.comp, split=c(2,1,2,2), more=TRUE)
>>>> print(p.bw, split=c(1,2,2,2), more=FALSE)
>>>>
>>>> What I'd like to have is a letter (A, B, ...) in the top corner of
>>>> each plot. While panel.text lets me add text anywhere within a plot, I
>>>> can't seem to workout how I could put some text in the top left
>>>> corner, say, of the whole plotting region.
>>>
>>> ########>>>>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>>
>> Apologies for an incomplete post. Example code, based on Gabors suggestion
>> is
>>
>> library(gridExtra)
>> p1 <- xyplot(demand ~ Time, BOD)
>> p2 <- xyplot(demand ~ Time, BOD)
>> p3 <- xyplot(demand ~ Time, BOD)
>> print(p1, split=c(1,1,2,2), more=TRUE)
>> print(p2, split=c(2,1,2,2), more=TRUE)
>> print(p3, split=c(1,2,2,2), more=FALSE)
>>
>> However, Gabors approach places the mark within the plot itself. What
>> I'd ideally like is to have the mark be located in the margins, in the
>> top right corner. (I am not sure of the correct terminology here). An
>> example of the desired output can be seen at
>> http://rguha.net/plot-annot.png
>>
>
> Something along these lines?
>
> vp <- viewport(w = 1, h = 1, gp = gpar(col="blue")) # or "black"
>  grid.text("A",
>           y = .95, x=.05,
>           gp = gpar(fontsize=20), vp = vp)
>  grid.text("B",
>           y = .95, x=.55,
>           gp = gpar(fontsize=20), vp = vp)
>  grid.text("C",
>           y = .45, x=.05,
>           gp = gpar(fontsize=20), vp = vp)
> --
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>
>



-- 
Rajarshi Guha
NIH Chemical Genomics Center