R help - Oct 2007 - lattice/xyplot: horizontal y-axis labels with scales(relation="free")

I would like to create an xyplot with varying y-axis limits and horizontal
labels at the y-axis tickmarks.
The following does not seem to work, although I think it should, going by the
documentation for par.
R version 2.5.1, Windows XP Prof.
Thanks for a clue.

  Andreas Krause

library(lattice)

# axis labels for y-axis are horizontal
xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris)

# labels are now vertical
xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris,
scales=list(relation="free"))

# still vertical despite las=1
xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris,
scales=list(relation="free"), las=1)
xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris,
scales=list(relation="free", las=1))

# The example produces the same results for histogram(~Sepal.Width, ...)

Andreas Krause:
> # still vertical despite las=1
> xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris,
> scales=list(relation="free"), las=1) xyplot(Sepal.Length ~
Sepal.Width |
> Species, data=iris, scales=list(relation="free", las=1))
Try

xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris,
scales=list(relation="free", rot=0))

lattice uses 'rot' instead of 'las' for rotating the labels.

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

For y-axis only:
xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris, 
scales=list(y=list(relation="free", rot=0)))


Andreas Krause wrote:
>I would like to create an xyplot with varying y-axis limits and horizontal
labels at the y-axis tickmarks.
>The following does not seem to work, although I think it should, going by
the documentation for par.
>R version 2.5.1, Windows XP Prof.
>Thanks for a clue.
>
>  Andreas Krause
>
>library(lattice)
>
># axis labels for y-axis are horizontal
>xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris)
>
># labels are now vertical
>xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris,
scales=list(relation="free"))
>
># still vertical despite las=1
>xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris,
scales=list(relation="free"), las=1)
>xyplot(Sepal.Length ~ Sepal.Width | Species, data=iris,
scales=list(relation="free", las=1))
>
># The example produces the same results for histogram(~Sepal.Width, ...)
>
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