[R] Adding units to levelplot's colorkey

[Dennis Murphy]

You don't show code or a reproducible example, so I guess you want a
general answer. Use the draw.colorkey() function inside the
levelplot() call. It takes an argument key =, which accepts a list of
arguments, including space, col, at, labels, tick.number, width and
height (see p. 155 of the Lattice book). More specifically, the labels
argument also accepts a list of values, with components at, labels,
cex, col, font, fontface and fontfamily. You could attach the units as
labels with a combination of at = and labels = inside the (outer)
labels argument, something like

myAt <- c(1, 3, 5, 7, 9)
myLab <- paste(myAt, 'cm')

levelplot( ...
   draw.colorkey(key = list(labels = list(at = myAt, labels = myLab)),
...        )

If that doesn't work, then please provide a reproducible example.

HTH,
Dennis

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Carlisle Thacker
<Carlisle.Thacker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> How to add units (e.g. "cm") to the color key of a lattice levelplot?
>
> The plots looks fantastic, but it would be nice to indicate somewhere near
> the end of the color key that the values associated with its colors are in
> centimeters or some other physical units.
>
> The only thing I find is the possibility to specify the labels so that one
> explicitly includes the units.  That leaves little flexibility for
> positioning where this information appears.  Is there a better way?
>
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