[R] Custom axis function in lattice:::xyplot

[Gavin Simpson]

<snip />
> 
> # There must a better way, but this works; add
> 
>    labels = levels(dat$fac)[panel.number()],
> 
> # to your panel.axis() call in axis.VarLabs.

Thanks Peter. I had tried that but it didn't work. Now just realised I
was hitting a scoping problem and that my example was subtly different
to the real world problem. In the real world situation I had
axis.VarLabs defined outside of the actual plotting function and the
xyplot call was being arranged by the plotting function. Hence I was
getting an error with the suggestion you sent along lines of

Error in levels(dat$fac) : object 'dat' not found

Moving axis.VarLabs to be defined locally within my plotting function
solves this problem and is goo enough for me.

So many thanks Peter; I've been banging my head on this one for a couple
of days now [although I have taken the opportunity to read a lot more of
Deepayan's excellent Lattice book whilst trying to sort this all out].

<snip />
> >
> > Secondly, how do you ensure there is enough space around the plot to
> > draw the axis labels without truncation - as can be seen on the example
> > xyplot.
> 
> # Look at the settings for layout.heights, especially
> # axis.top and top.padding:

Will take a look at this and Deepayan's legend suggestion to see which
suits best.

Cheers,

All the best,

G

> 
>   xyplot(....,
>      par.settings = list(layout.heights =
>          list(axis.top = xxx,
>               top.padding = xxx)))
> 
> # (Shouldn't need both; I don't know which is more
> # suitable for you.)
> 
>    -Peter Ehlers

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