R help - Mar 2009 - lattice multipanel strip placement - with two factors

Hi,

I'm making a multipanel lattice densityplot figure with 2 factors (3 and
20 classes in each factor) with the following statement (the
type="percent" is there to prevent plotting the actual points which
detract from the figure - is there another way of doing this?):

densityplot(~End-Begin | Type * Chromosome, data=Mon, layout=c(5,12),
xlab="Element Length",type="percent",
col="grey60",
strip=strip.custom(style=3, bg="grey90",
par.strip.text=list(cex=0.5)))

Plotting 60 panels and associated strips on a page leaves the whole
thing pretty tight and so I'd like to move the 3 class factor strips to
the left margin of the whole figure.

Like so (pardon the ASCII art):

+-+----+----+----+----+----+
+ +----+----+----+----+----+
| |    |    |    |    |    |
+A+----+----+----+----+----+
+ +----+----+----+----+----+
| |    |    |    |    |    |
+-+----+----+----+----+----+
+ +----+----+----+----+----+
| |    |    |    |    |    |
+B+----+----+----+----+----+
+ +----+----+----+----+----+
| |    |    |    |    |    |
+-+----+----+----+----+----+
+ +----+----+----+----+----+
| |    |    |    |    |    |
+C+----+----+----+----+----+
+ +----+----+----+----+----+
| |    |    |    |    |    |
+-+----+----+----+----+----+

Is this possible with lattice and if so, what do I need to do to get it.
I've tried strip.left=TRUE and that just make the problem a horizontal
one rather than a vertical one.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks
Dan

I'm not sure I understood your problem (can you provide an  
reproducible example?), but perhaps you can try useOuterStrips() in  
the latticeExtra package (the formatting becomes similar to that of  
the ggplot2 package, perhaps another option to consider)


Hope this helps,

baptiste

On 23 Mar 2009, at 06:54, Dan Kortschak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm making a multipanel lattice densityplot figure with 2 factors (3  
> and
> 20 classes in each factor) with the following statement (the
> type="percent" is there to prevent plotting the actual points
which
> detract from the figure - is there another way of doing this?):
>
> densityplot(~End-Begin | Type * Chromosome, data=Mon, layout=c(5,12),
> xlab="Element Length",type="percent",
col="grey60",
> strip=strip.custom(style=3, bg="grey90",  
> par.strip.text=list(cex=0.5)))
>
> Plotting 60 panels and associated strips on a page leaves the whole
> thing pretty tight and so I'd like to move the 3 class factor strips  
> to
> the left margin of the whole figure.
>
> Like so (pardon the ASCII art):
>
> +-+----+----+----+----+----+
> + +----+----+----+----+----+
> | |    |    |    |    |    |
> +A+----+----+----+----+----+
> + +----+----+----+----+----+
> | |    |    |    |    |    |
> +-+----+----+----+----+----+
> + +----+----+----+----+----+
> | |    |    |    |    |    |
> +B+----+----+----+----+----+
> + +----+----+----+----+----+
> | |    |    |    |    |    |
> +-+----+----+----+----+----+
> + +----+----+----+----+----+
> | |    |    |    |    |    |
> +C+----+----+----+----+----+
> + +----+----+----+----+----+
> | |    |    |    |    |    |
> +-+----+----+----+----+----+
>
> Is this possible with lattice and if so, what do I need to do to get  
> it.
> I've tried strip.left=TRUE and that just make the problem a horizontal
> one rather than a vertical one.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks
> Dan
>
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