[R] xyplot: problems with column names & legend

Felix Andrews felix at nfrac.org
Wed Jan 6 03:41:45 CET 2010


You have not said what the problem is, i.e. what you have tried and
what you expect. Please post a small, reproducible example if you want
help.

Regards
-Felix

2010/1/6 Jay <josip.2000 at gmail.com>:
> Anybody? Frustrating to be unable to solve this silly little
> problem...
>
> On Jan 3, 12:48 pm, Jay <josip.2... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, the backtickes got the code working. However, now I cant get
>> it to draw the legend/key.
>> For example, look at this figure:http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0her/Statistics/xyplot5.png
>> My graph is similar, but instead of 1,2,...,8 as the names of the
>> series I want it to say "Data one" (a string with spaces) and so on.
>>
>> On Jan 3, 10:58 am, baptiste auguie <baptiste.aug... at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>>
>> > Using backticks might work to some extent,
>>
>> > library(lattice)
>> > `my variable` = 1:10
>> > y=rnorm(10)
>> > xyplot(`my variable` ~ y)
>>
>> > but if your data is in a data.frame the names should have been converted,
>>
>> > make.names('my variable')
>> > [1] "my.variable"
>>
>> > HTH,
>>
>> > baptiste
>>
>> > 2010/1/3 Jay <josip.2... at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > > Hello!
>>
>> > > one more question about xyplot. If I have data which have space in the
>> > > column names, say "xyz 123". How do I create a working graph where
>> > > this text is displayed in the legend key?
>>
>> > > Now when I try something like xyplot("xyz 123" ~ variable1, data =
>> > > mydata, .......) I get nothing.
>> > > Also, is it possible to genrate the graph with xyplot(mydata[,1] ~
>> > > variable1, data = mydata, .......) and then later in the code specify
>> > > the names that should be displayed in the legend?
>>
>> > > Thank you!
>>
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