[R] lattice: strange behavior (?) when using trellis.device(color=FALSE)

[David Winsemius]

On Nov 26, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Marius Hofert wrote:

> Dear expeRts,
>
> I am not sure if I found a bug...
> I would like to create a function that itself creates a lattice plot  
> without
> colors. Following http://www.mail-archive.com/r-help@r-project.org/msg64699.html
> I use trellis.device() to set the colors to FALSE. Whenever I call  
> the minimal
> example below *with* trellis.device(), Quartz opens a window (I am  
> working on a
> MAC), which it shouldn't,

Wrong. Please look at the default for the "device" argument in the  
help page of trellis.device().

> since I only want to create the plot, but do not intend
> to "print" it. Moreover, if I check the value of b, it prints the  
> plot (which
> is correct) but still with colors.
> Without the trellis.device() call, it works fine (but of course the  
> plot is
> again colored)...
> The reason why I would like to use trellis.device() within a  
> function is that
> the plot contains a panel.function which contains many calls to  
> panel.xyplot()
> and I do not want to write "col = 1" (e.g.) all the time...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius
>
> library(lattice)
>

Just take the trellis.device() line out of that function. Or specify a  
proper device call as an argument to device= ....

> xyplot. <- function(u) {
#	trellis.device(color = FALSE)
>
> 	xyplot(u[,2]~u[,1])
> }
>
> U <- matrix(runif(20),ncol=2)
>
> b <- xyplot.(U)

str(b)

>



David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT