[R] Lattice help: Dotplot

[David Winsemius]

On Aug 19, 2011, at 5:07 PM, sw1 wrote:

> With Dotplot,

Are you sure that you are using lattice? Maybe you out to look more  
closely at:

?Dotplot


> I'm trying to make a figure that will ultimately have the same
> x-axis (which will be my response variable and the error bars), but  
> the
> y-axis will consist of a different label for every point. Here's my  
> code:
>
> Dotplot(fTaxonGrouped ~ Cbind(normSlope,normLwr,normUpr)|fGroup,
> groups=fEpoch,
> 	pch=c(17,15,19), col=c(3:1),
> 	scales = list(
> 		y = list(relation = "sliced",axs = "r", alternating =  
> 0,tick.number=10),
> 		x = list(tick.number = 6)
> 	))
>
> It ALMOST does exactly what I. There are six small graphs, and each
> datapoint has a unique value on the y-axis (integers), but once I  
> try to
> change the y-axis tick labels to the list containing the names of each
> datapoint (characters), it lists only the first 10 names for all 6  
> graphs --
> that is, it repeats the names, so they are no longer unique and are  
> also
> mislabeled.
>
> If I change the relation to "same", the correct datapoints are  
> plotted for
> their appropriate group and hence appropriate plot, and every point is
> labeled correctly, but because only about 10 data points apply to each
> group, I have 6 plots with about 10 points each but all 40 names  
> listed in
> every one.
>
> Essentially, I need the graph the results when relation is set to  
> "same",
> but with blank labels removed (like when relation is set to  
> "sliced") and
> thus scaled correctly, but the labels cannot be changed into  
> integers, which
> is what happens when relation is set to "slice."
>

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT