R help - Jul 2003 - contourplot:how to get it to label all contours like 'contour'

Hi,

one of the nice things about contour is that it labels all contour lines.
contourplot only labels each particular elevation a single time.
i.e., if there are two contour lines corresponding to z = 45, it will only 
label one of them.

is there a way to get contourplot to automatically label all the contour lines, 
even those that are repeated?

i ask because i want to plot contour plots *w/ all contours labelled*, next to  
wireframe plots-- i can plot two lattice plots (wireframe and contourplot)
next to each other easily enough, but contourplot doesn't label all
contours.

AND, i can get contour to label all of 'em, but then i don't know how to
put
an 'Old Style' contour plot alongside the lattice wireframe.
mfrow doesn't work for wireframe, & i can't "print" plots
generated by contour.

any help is much appreciated.

best,

alexis

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 adiamond at fas.harvard.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> one of the nice things about contour is that it labels all contour lines.
> contourplot only labels each particular elevation a single time.
> i.e., if there are two contour lines corresponding to z = 45, it will only 
> label one of them.
> 
> is there a way to get contourplot to automatically label all the contour
lines,
> even those that are repeated?
> 
> i ask because i want to plot contour plots *w/ all contours labelled*, next
to
> wireframe plots-- i can plot two lattice plots (wireframe and contourplot)
> next to each other easily enough, but contourplot doesn't label all
contours.
> 
> AND, i can get contour to label all of 'em, but then i don't know
how to put
> an 'Old Style' contour plot alongside the lattice wireframe.
> mfrow doesn't work for wireframe, & i can't "print"
plots generated by contour.
What are you doing with the plot?  If including in a document, it is
should be easy to include them as two subfigures (it is LaTeX).  If you
want to do this on one on-screen device it isn't actually that hard: use
print.trellis() to put the wireframe() one where you want it, and use
par(fin) to select a figure region and call contour() within that.  I've
done that sort of thing several times when I wanted overlapping figure
regions, usually because wireframe() gave too large margins.

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