[R] Arrangement of Lattice Histograms - Top to bottom and then left to right?

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Bert Gunter <gunter.berton at gene.com> wrote:
> Look for the index.cond argument at the bottom of the Help page for xyplot.
> -- Bert

Also ?print.trellis and ?packet.panel.default for a more general
(non-example-specific) approach.

-Deepayan

> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Les <lnharris at zoology.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> Hi List,
>> Using Lattice, I have created a plot of histograms showing Fork Length by
>> Year. The plot shows the histograms in 3 columns and 5 rows. Using the
>> as.table=T function I can get the years to start on top. However, what I
>> would like to do is have the first year start in the top left (column 1, row
>> 1; as it is now) and add the subsequent histograms to the plot going down
>> the column and then over by row (example and current code is shown below).
>> Is this possible? I have spent a great deal of time searching, and have not
>> found any clues. Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> For example, what is being done now:
>>
>> 1974 1975 1976
>> 1977 1978 1979
>> 1980 1981 1982
>>
>> and what I am hoping for:
>>
>> 1974 1977 1980
>> 1975 1978 1981
>> 1976 1979 1982
>>
>> Thank you kindly,
>> Les
>>
>> data=read.csv("AllData.csv",sep=",",header=T)
>> data$year=as.factor(data$year)
>> ferg=data[data$wtrbody=="Ferguson",c(1:12)]
>> library(lattice)
>>
>> strip.background=trellis.par.get("strip.background")
>> trellis.par.set(strip.background = list(col = grey(7:1/8)))
>>
>> histogram(~fl|year, data=ferg, as.table=T, type="count",
>>        col='dark grey',layout=c(3,5),lwd=2, lty=1,
>>        xlab=list("Fork Length (mm)", cex=1.4,font=2),
>>        breaks=seq(from=300,to=900,by=25),
>>        ylab=list("Frequency",cex=1.4,font=2),
>>        scales=list(font=2,cex=1.1, tck=c(1,0), alternating=1,
>>        y=list(relation="free",tick.number=3)),
>>        par.strip.text=list(cex=1.2),font=2,
>>        aspect=0.6)
>>
>> --
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