[R] Adjusting Font Size: lattice / bwplot

[David Winsemius]

It took me several rounds of failed efforts before I came up with a  
perspective that was successful. One of the most informative exercises  
was to look at lattice plot objects with str(). It taught me to always  
try "packaging" arguments in nested list structures. I highly  
recommend examining several different lattice objects with str().

-- 
David.
On Sep 20, 2010, at 11:51 PM, Michael Just wrote:

> Hello,
> I know I am supposed to get 'it' when I "?bwplot" but your example  
> really made things clearer for me.
>
> Thanks,
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:50 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net 
> > wrote:
>
> On Sep 20, 2010, at 12:43 AM, Michael Just wrote:
>
> Hello,
> If you run the following code with lattice installed:
>
> bwplot(voice.part ~ height, data=singer, xlab="Height (inches)")
>
> There will be some text in the graph e.g. Soprano 1, Soprano 2, etc -
> 60, 65, etc and the title: Height (Inches).  How can one make the font
> for this text larger and/or bold?  Also, is there a way to thicken or
> bold the lines of the box and whisker plot?
>
> The information to do this is located in various places of :
>
> ?bwplot and
> ?panel.bwplot
> ?grid.text   # linked from help(bwplot) .../main, and needed for  
> fontsize  argument
>
>
> bwplot(voice.part ~ height, data=singer,
>         xlab=list(label="Height (inches)", fontsize=60),   # silly  
> value
>         scales=list(cex=1.5),
>         par.settings=list(box.rectangle=list(lwd=2)))
>
> The scales arguments are the one I have most often needed to use.  
> One can separately alter the x= and y= settings if needed.
>
>
> Thank you kindly,
> Michael
>
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