Hi Hadley

On 27/01/2008, hadley wickham <h.wickham@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am using ggplot2 at the moment and I must say it is definitely better
> > then ggplot - good work.
> >
> > My problem is that I am using facet_grid() in the following way:
> >
> >  > p <- ggplot(ssq, aes(x=year, y=-log(ssq)))
> >  > p + geom_point() + facet_grid(me*gi~cs*rz)
> >
> > and it works nicely, except that I would like to have, in naddition to
> > the values of me, gi, cs and rz the name of the variable. I.e: if gi is
> > 1, 2 and 3 I would like to have "gi = 1:", "gi = 2" and "gi = 3" as
> > labels of the p[anels. I did it with ggplot, but I don't remember and I
> > have lost the code ...
>
> ggopt(strip.text = function(variable, value) paste(variable, value, sep="=
> "))


That's exactly what I was looking for - thanks.

> Just a small comment on the package: as I am using emacs with ess, I
> > have to press "_" twice to get the underscore in the commands (as the
> > first one is replaced with "->" and then reverted to "_") - would it be
> > possible to change these in the next release with "." (but still provide
> > an alias with "_")?
>
> I know it's a pain but I think emacs users need to change their ways
> (and default settings) because as time goes by I think you'll see
> increasing numbers of packages using _ instead of . to prevent
> conflicts with S3.  It would be nice if R had a standard convention
> for separating words in functions.


I agree - I love that feature because it  actually saves  three keystrokes -
but one could easily use another key for that - but a convention would be
nice and would make live much easier.

Rainer

Hadley
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