[R] lattice barchart() with two variables

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, Bert Gunter wrote:

> For the legend, you can use the full "key" argument for more control.

Bert,

   This I did.

> For the scales, again, the docs provide the answer:  the "at" and "labels"
> components of "x" component of the scales lists can explicitly control the
> x -labels, e.g.

   A bit of trial-and-error got this working, too. Now the plot command works
as desired:

barchart(value ~ year, data=stage_heights,
                     panel = lattice.getOption("panel.barchart"),
                     default.prepanel = lattice.getOption("prepanel.default.barchart"),
                     box.ratio = 2, horizontal=FALSE, key=list(c(0.2,0.3), columns=2,
                                                               text=list(c('Median','Maximum')),
                                                               rect=list(col=c('black', 'grey'))),
                     groups=factor(type,labels=c('Median','Maximum')), beside=TRUE,
                     col = c('grey','black'), scales=list(x=list(at=rep(1:29),
                                                                 labels=rep(1989:2018),rot=90)),
                     main = 'Median and Maximum Stage Heights',
                     ylab = 'Elevation (masl)', xlab = 'Year')

(Emacs w/ESS does the formatting). I suppose that the Maximum bar is plotted
to the left because alphabetically it preceeds Medium. I can live with this.

   Deepayan's book was one of the first I bought years ago. I've not before
had plots that required more in-depth knowledge of panels, keys, and scales
so I do appreciate your patient mentoring.

Best regards,

Rich