[R] lattice/xyplot: horizontal y-axis labels with scales(relation="free")

Rafael Duarte rduarte at ipimar.pt
Tue Oct 9 18:42:40 CEST 2007


For y-axis only:
xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris, 
scales=list(y=list(relation="free", rot=0)))


Andreas Krause wrote:

>I would like to create an xyplot with varying y-axis limits and horizontal labels at the y-axis tickmarks.
>The following does not seem to work, although I think it should, going by the documentation for par.
>R version 2.5.1, Windows XP Prof.
>Thanks for a clue.
>
>  Andreas Krause
>
>library(lattice)
>
># axis labels for y-axis are horizontal
>xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris)
>
># labels are now vertical
>xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris, scales=list(relation="free"))
>
># still vertical despite las=1
>xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris, scales=list(relation="free"), las=1)
>xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris, scales=list(relation="free", las=1))
>
># The example produces the same results for histogram(~Sepal.Width, ...)
>
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