[R] Lattice --reference line in panels does not come up

[Luis Ridao Cruz]

Thank you Uwe,

It worked !

Luis

>>> Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de> 16/02/2005 13:21:27
>>>
Luis Ridao Cruz wrote:

> R-help,
> 
> I am quite new to lattice.
> I am plotting something in which I want some reference lines.
> I do the foolowing :
> 
> library ( lattice )
> reference.line <- trellis.par.get ( "reference.line" ) 
> reference.line$lty <- 2    ## not working with any of the
> reference.line components
> # reference.line$col <- "red" 
> trellis.par.set("reference.line", reference.line)
> xyplot ( number ~ cm | year , data = lgda., type = "l", col = "black"
,
> ylab = "Number", xlab = "Length (cm) ") ## the actual plot
> 
> The result is without reference lines.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?


You have forgotten to specify panel.grid() in your call, which is the 
only function accepting reference line settings, AFAIK. The following 
should do the trick:

  xyplot(.....,
    panel = function(x, y, ...){
      panel.xyplot(x, y, ...)
      panel.grid()
    }
  )



Uwe Ligges




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