[R] Oceanographic lattice plots?

[Mike Prager]

R 1.8.0 on Windows XP Professional.  A huge THANK YOU to the R Team for 
this marvelous software.

I am making lattice plots of oceanographic data.  The usual layout does not 
conform to plotting conventions that marine scientists use when depth is 
the independent variable.  Under those conventions, plots are made with the 
origin at the upper left, depth on the vertical axis (increasing as it goes 
down), and the dependent variable on the horizontal axis (increasing to the 
right).

That convention has implications not just in how axes are labeled and set 
up, but also when using smoothing routines such as panel.lowess(), because 
the smoothed values are on the horizontal axis, not the vertical axis.

Before I start looking at and modifying the R code that makes up the 
relevant routines, I wonder if any reader has already developed R routines 
for this purpose?


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Michael Prager, Ph.D.
NOAA Beaufort Laboratory
Beaufort, North Carolina  28516
http://shrimp.ccfhrb.noaa.gov/~mprager/
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