[R] identify in lattice

Prof Brian D Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Tue Mar 5 08:14:51 CET 2002


On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 apjaworski at mmm.com wrote:

> Does identify work in lattice plots?  I tried this in R 1.4.1 (original
> release) on my Win2000 machine with lattice 0.4-0 and grid 0.5-1.
>
>      > xyplot(y ~ x,
>      + panel=function(x, y, ...){
>      + panel.xyplot(x, y, col=2, pch=20, ...)
>      + panel.lmline(x, y, type = "l")
>      + identify(x, y)
>      + })
>
> I get a change of cursor after the data points and the LS line are plotted
> (but before the axes are), but when I start clicking on points, all I get
> are beeps.   When I click the right mouse button I get a window with
> stop/continue choices and choosing stop produces the axes on the plot and a
> bunch of  warnings about no point being within 0.25 inches.
>
> Am I doing anything wrong or identify is not implemented in lattice
> graphics?

identify is part of the base graphics: lattice is built on grid.  You can't
just use base graphics functions in lattice panels, but in most cases there
are equivalents.  identify in an exception, one that has hit me too.

Brian

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