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lattice multiple y-scale possible?

3 messages · Steve Corsi, Dennis Murphy, Steven R Corsi

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Steve Corsi
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Hi
I am attempting to use the lattice bwplot function to generate boxplots 
of numerous parameters (1-panel/parameter) by site (x-axis). The 
parameters have quite different ranges of values, so it would be best to 
have a separate y-axis range for each panel. Below is a basic example of 
what I am trying to do. As is seen, the y-axes need to be scaled 
individually to make this useful. Any information on how to do this 
would be much appreciated:

rm(mydat)
rm(tempdf)

for (i in 1:5){
for (ii in 1:5){
dat <- sample(1:20)*10^ii
tempdf <- data.frame(dat)
tempdf$parameter <- paste("parameter ",ii,sep="")
tempdf$site <- paste("site",i,sep="")
if(!exists("mydat")) {mydat <- tempdf
   }else {mydat <- rbind(mydat,tempdf)}
   }
}

bwplot(dat~site|parameter,data=mydat,
       layout=c(1,5),
       cex=2,
       xlab="Site Name",
       ylab="",
       labels=levels(mydat$site), scales=list(tick.number=list(4)))

thanks
Steve
Dennis Murphy
# 
Hi:

bwplot(dat~site|parameter,data=mydat,
     layout=c(1,5),
     cex=2,
     xlab="Site Name",
     ylab="",
     labels=levels(mydat$site),
     scales=list(tick.number=list(4), rot = c(0, 90),
                 y = list(relation = 'free')))

Does that work?

Dennis
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Steve Corsi <srcorsi at usgs.gov> wrote:
Steven R Corsi
# 
Dennis

Adding in y = list(relation = 'free') to the scales argument worked  
very well.

Thanks!
Steve

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On 6/28/2011 6:23 AM, Dennis Murphy wrote: