[R] image() with color key?

Thomas Lumley tlumley at u.washington.edu
Fri Sep 3 22:33:06 CEST 2004


On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Berton Gunter wrote:

> In some applications, e.g., visualizing the values of the wells in a 96 well
> (8 x 12) assay plate, the matrix of results is truly discrete and you want
> to visualize it that way. image() does this, but not filled.contour() AFAIK.
> If that's correct, the only way I know how to do it is to overlay two plots
> (par(new=FALSE)),one for the data and the other for the legend. This is
> certainly not trivial, but it's not impossibly hard, either.

layout() is probably easier.  That's how filled.contour does it.

	-thomas

>
> I hope I'm wrong on this, though, as I'd welcome an easier way, too.
>
> -- Bert Gunter
> Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
> South San Francisco, CA
>
> "The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning
> process."  - George E. P. Box
>
> > Does filled.contour() give you what you want?
> >
> > Deepayan
> >
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Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle




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