[R] Mutiple page trellis plots with relation = "free" or "sliced"

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Friday 06 December 2002 08:44 am, Jim Rogers wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone out there encountered a problem like this:
>
> xyplot(Plasma ~ Serum | Analyte,
>        data = sp.df,
>        aspect = 1,
>        layout = c(1, 1, 200),
>        scales = list(relation = "free")
>        )
>
> Gives the error:
>
> Error in pretty(x[is.finite(x)], ...) : x must be numeric
>
> On the other hand, this works (but I don't want the default of having
> everything on the same page):
>
> xyplot(Plasma ~ Serum | Analyte,
>        data = sp.df,
>        aspect = 1,
>        # layout = c(1, 1, 200),
>        scales = list(relation = "free")
>        )
>
> and this works (but I don't want the default of using the same axes
> limits for all plots):
>
> xyplot(Plasma ~ Serum | Analyte,
>        data = sp.df,
>        aspect = 1,
>        layout = c(1, 1, 200)
>        # scales = list(relation = "free")
>        )
>
> For my present situation, I can work around this by creating multiple
> plots in a loop, but I am wondering if I am missing something about the
> way multi-page plots work.

No, this is supposed to work. I'm not sure where the problem might be, but it 
could have something to do with panels without any data in them. Does that 
happen in your case ?

> Thanks for any help.
>
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     i386
> os       mingw32
> system   i386, mingw32
> status
> major    1
> minor    6.1
> year     2002
> month    11
> day      01
> language R
>
> Jim Rogers
>
> James A. Rogers, Ph.D. <rogers at cantatapharm.com>
> Statistical Scientist
> Cantata Pharmaceuticals
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