R help - May 2011 - scales argument in bwplot (lattice)

Suppose I have data such as the following

set.seed(12345)
tmp <- data.frame(var1 = rnorm(100), var2 = rnorm(100), var3=rnorm(100, 10,
30))

tmp1 <- data.frame(vars = with(tmp, c(var1, var2, var3)), type = gl(3, 100))

var3 is on a different scale, but I create the following plot, which looks
terrible as a result

bwplot(~ vars|type, tmp1,
                layout = c(1,3),
)

Of course, I can use the scales = 'free' argument and this looks fine.

bwplot(~ vars|type, tmp1,
                scales = 'free',
                layout = c(1,3),
)

My real world data are a little tougher to describe, but follow a similar
pattern. My question is, is there a way to make the bottom two boxplots to have
the *same* scale, but for the top plot to have its own unique scale?

The scales = 'free' argument permits for each plot to have its own
scale. Perhaps there is a way to generalize this so only certain plots have a
unique scale and all others are on the same scale.

Thanks

Harold

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252  
LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] lattice_0.19-13

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_2.12.0  tools_2.12.0

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On 2011-05-17 06:50, Doran, Harold wrote:
> Suppose I have data such as the following
>
> set.seed(12345)
> tmp<- data.frame(var1 = rnorm(100), var2 = rnorm(100), var3=rnorm(100,
10, 30))
>
> tmp1<- data.frame(vars = with(tmp, c(var1, var2, var3)), type = gl(3,
100))
>
> var3 is on a different scale, but I create the following plot, which looks
terrible as a result
>
> bwplot(~ vars|type, tmp1,
>                  layout = c(1,3),
> )
>
> Of course, I can use the scales = 'free' argument and this looks
fine.
>
> bwplot(~ vars|type, tmp1,
>                  scales = 'free',
>                  layout = c(1,3),
> )
>
> My real world data are a little tougher to describe, but follow
 > a similar pattern. My question is, is there a way to make the
 > bottom two boxplots to have the *same* scale, but for the top
 > plot to have its own unique scale?
>
> The scales = 'free' argument permits for each plot to have its
 > own scale. Perhaps there is a way to generalize this so only
 > certain plots have a unique scale and all others are on the
 > same scale.

Does this help:

   bwplot(~ vars|type, layout = c(1,3), data=tmp1
     , scales = 'free'
     , xlim=list(c(-3,3), c(-3,3), c(-60,90))
   )

There's a comment on ?xyplot in the scales section:

  "When relation is "free", xlim or ylim can be a list, ..."

Peter Ehlers
>
> Thanks
>
> Harold
>
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United
States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] lattice_0.19-13
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] grid_2.12.0  tools_2.12.0
>
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