[R] legend in lattice densityplot

Albert Vilella avilella at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 14:45:33 CET 2007 

How can I place the legend to the left or right of the densityplot? By
default, it goes at the top, and as it is a rather long list, the
density plot only uses half the space of the whole graphic...

On 11/30/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Me too on Windows XP.
>
> Its probably just a bug or unimplemented feature in the SVG driver.
> Write to the maintainer of that package
>
> For a workaround generate fig output and then convert it to svg using whatever
> fig editor or converter you have.
>
> (On my windows system I use the free fig2dev converter although it inserted
> a DOCTYPE statement into the generated SVG file that IE7 did not recognize
> but once I manually deleted that it displayed ok in IE7.)
>
> # after producing file01.fig run
> #   fig2dev -L svg file01.fig file01.svg
> # or use some other fig to svg converter or editor
> xfig(file = "/file01.fig", onefile = TRUE)
> library(lattice)
> set.seed(1)
> DF <- data.frame(x = c(rnorm(100,1,2),rnorm(100,2,4),rnorm(100,3,6)),
>        f = sample(c("A","B","C","D","E"),300,replace=TRUE))
> densityplot(~ x, DF, groups = f, auto.key = TRUE, plot.points = FALSE,
>  par.settings = list(superpose.line = list(col = c(1,1,2,2), lty = 1:2,
>  lwd = c(1,1,1,1,2))))
> dev.off()
>
>
> On 11/30/06, Albert Vilella <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Should it be a problem to print this dashed line plots as svgs?
> >
> > library(RSvgDevice)
> > devSVG(file = "/home/avilella/file01.svg",
> >       width = 20, height = 16, bg = "white", fg = "black", onefile=TRUE,
> >       xmlHeader=TRUE)
> > densityplot(...)
> > dev.off()
> >
> > I am getting all the lines as continuous, not dashed...
> >
> > On 11/30/06, Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Yes  by using the lty suboption of superpose.line.
> > > Here is a modification of the prior example to illustrate:
> > > We also use lwd as well in this example.
> > >
> > > set.seed(1)
> > > DF <- data.frame(x = c(rnorm(100,1,2),rnorm(100,2,4),rnorm(100,3,6)),
> > >        f = sample(c("A","B","C","D","E"),300,replace=TRUE))
> > > library(lattice)
> > > densityplot(~ x, DF, groups = f, auto.key = TRUE, plot.points = FALSE,
> > >  par.settings = list(superpose.line = list(col = c(1,1,2,2), lty = 1:2,
> > >  lwd = c(1,1,1,1,2))))
> > >
> > >
> > > On 11/30/06, Albert Vilella <avilella at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Can I combine colors and line types? For example, would it be possible
> > > > to have 5 colors per 2 types of lines (continuous and dashed)?
> > > >
> > > > On 11/29/06, Chuck Cleland <ccleland at optonline.net> wrote:
> > > > > Albert Vilella wrote:
> > > > > > Are this legend colors correlated to the plot?
> > > > >
> > > > >   They are if you rely on the colors in
> > > > >
> > > > > trellis.par.get("superpose.line")$col
> > > > >
> > > > >   If you want different colors you might use trellis.par.set() to
> > > > > temporarily change the colors:
> > > > >
> > > > > x <- c(rnorm(100,-2,1),rnorm(100,0,1),rnorm(100,2,1))
> > > > > f <- rep(c("A","B","C"), each=100)
> > > > > df <- data.frame(x,f)
> > > > > library(lattice)
> > > > >
> > > > > oldpar <- trellis.par.get("superpose.line")$col
> > > > >
> > > > > trellis.par.set(superpose.line = list(col = heat.colors(3)))
> > > > >
> > > > > densityplot(~ x, groups = f, data = df,
> > > > >                  plot.points=FALSE,
> > > > >                  auto.key=TRUE)
> > > > >
> > > > > trellis.par.set(superpose.line = list(col = oldpar))
> > > > >
> > > > >   If you don't require points or lines in the key, you also could do
> > > > > something like this:
> > > > >
> > > > > densityplot(~ x, groups = f, data = df,
> > > > >                  plot.points=FALSE,
> > > > >                  key = simpleKey(levels(df$f),
> > > > >                                  lines=FALSE,
> > > > >                                  points=FALSE,
> > > > >                                  col=heat.colors(3)),
> > > > >                  col=heat.colors(3))
> > > > >
> > > > >   To use your own colors without changing the trellis settings and to
> > > > > get lines or points in the key, you probably need at least to use key =
> > > > > simpleKey() rather than the auto.key argument, and you may need to look
> > > > > into draw.key().  Other people on the list might know simpler approaches
> > > > > for using your own colors in this situation.
> > > > >
> > > > > > If I do a:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > densityplot(~x, groups=f, plot.points=FALSE,
> > > > > > auto.key=TRUE,col=heat.colors(5))
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I get different colors in the legend than the plot...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 11/29/06, Chuck Cleland <ccleland at optonline.net> wrote:
> > > > > >> Albert Vilella wrote:
> > > > > >> > Hi,
> > > > > >> >
> > > > > >> > I have a densityplot like this:
> > > > > >> >
> > > > > >> > x = c(rnorm(100,1,2),rnorm(100,2,4),rnorm(100,3,6))
> > > > > >> > f = sample(c("A","B","C","D","E"),300,replace=TRUE)
> > > > > >> > df=data.frame(x,f)
> > > > > >> > library(lattice)
> > > > > >> > attach(df)
> > > > > >> > densityplot(~x, groups=f)
> > > > > >> >
> > > > > >> > And I want to add a legend with the colours for the factors. How can
> > > > > >> I do that?
> > > > > >> > How can I not have the dots of the distribution at the bottom, or at
> > > > > >> > least, make them occupy less vertical space?
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>   Change the last line to the following:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> densityplot(~x, groups=f, plot.points=FALSE, auto.key=TRUE)
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> See ?panel.densityplot .
> > > > > >>
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