R help - Jul 2007 - Lattice: shifting strips to left of axes

Consider this plot:

xyplot(mpg ~ disp | cyl, mtcars, strip=F, strip.left=T, layout=c(1, 3),
        scales=list(relation="free"),
        par.settings=list(strip.background=list(col="transparent")))

I want to have the "cyl" strip labels on the left side of the axis. Is
this possible?

Failing that, is it possible to remove the left axis and display it on 
the right instead, despite relation="free"?
-- 
Michael Hoffman

On 7/2/07, Michael Hoffman <b3i4old02 at sneakemail.com>
wrote:
> Consider this plot:
>
> xyplot(mpg ~ disp | cyl, mtcars, strip=F, strip.left=T, layout=c(1, 3),
>         scales=list(relation="free"),
>        
par.settings=list(strip.background=list(col="transparent")))
>
> I want to have the "cyl" strip labels on the left side of the
axis. Is
> this possible?
No. (It's possible to have a legend there, which could be used to put
row-specific ylab-s, for example, but it will be hard to make it look
like strips)
> Failing that, is it possible to remove the left axis and display it on
> the right instead, despite relation="free"?
Yes, as long as you are willing to manually manage the space required for it:

xyplot(mpg ~ disp | cyl, mtcars, strip=F, strip.left=T, layout=c(1, 3),
       scales=list(relation="free", y = list(draw = FALSE)),
       axis = function(side, ...) {
           if (side == "right")
               panel.axis(side = "right", outside = TRUE)
           else axis.default(side = side, ...)
       },
       par.settings      
list(strip.background=list(col="transparent"),
            layout.widths = list(axis.key.padding = 5)))

-Deepayan