[R] New trellis settings

[David Hinds]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:23:35PM -0600, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> > 
> > Specifically, I have some code that in the past changed the relative
> > proportions of text versus the plot area using:
> >
> >   trellis.par.set('fontsize', list(text=8))
> >
> > which caused all text to get smaller, and the plot area to grow to
> > fill the larger available space.  Now, the plot area does not grow on
> > its own.  
> 
> That does seem to have been a side-effect in 1.9.1, but it was never 
> intended. I would consider that behaviour a bug, not a feature.

It was a pretty convenient bug! ;)

> > str(trellis.par.get()$layout.heights)
> List of 18
>  $ top.padding      : num 1
>  $ main             : num 1
>  $ main.key.padding : num 1
>  $ key.top          : num 1
>  $ key.axis.padding : num 1
>  ...
> 
> I was hoping that the names would be enough of a hint. Anything with 
> 'padding' in the name is space, and probably the ones you want to 
> change.

I've fiddled with these and can pretty much get what I want.  But
without really understanding what I'm doing.  It isn't clear to me,
for instance, why the "key" settings affect my plot when no key is
drawn.

-- Dave