R help - Aug 2011 - Lattice help: Dotplot

With Dotplot, I'm trying to make a figure that will ultimately have the same
x-axis (which will be my response variable and the error bars), but the
y-axis will consist of a different label for every point. Here's my code:

Dotplot(fTaxonGrouped ~ Cbind(normSlope,normLwr,normUpr)|fGroup,
groups=fEpoch, 
	pch=c(17,15,19), col=c(3:1), 
	scales = list(
		y = list(relation = "sliced",axs = "r", alternating =
0,tick.number=10),
		x = list(tick.number = 6)
	))

It ALMOST does exactly what I. There are six small graphs, and each
datapoint has a unique value on the y-axis (integers), but once I try to
change the y-axis tick labels to the list containing the names of each
datapoint (characters), it lists only the first 10 names for all 6 graphs --
that is, it repeats the names, so they are no longer unique and are also
mislabeled. 

If I change the relation to "same", the correct datapoints are plotted
for
their appropriate group and hence appropriate plot, and every point is
labeled correctly, but because only about 10 data points apply to each
group, I have 6 plots with about 10 points each but all 40 names listed in
every one.

Essentially, I need the graph the results when relation is set to
"same",
but with blank labels removed (like when relation is set to "sliced")
and
thus scaled correctly, but the labels cannot be changed into integers, which
is what happens when relation is set to "slice."

Thanks

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On Aug 19, 2011, at 5:07 PM, sw1 wrote:
> With Dotplot,
Are you sure that you are using lattice? Maybe you out to look more  
closely at:

?Dotplot

> I'm trying to make a figure that will ultimately have the same
> x-axis (which will be my response variable and the error bars), but  
> the
> y-axis will consist of a different label for every point. Here's my  
> code:
>
> Dotplot(fTaxonGrouped ~ Cbind(normSlope,normLwr,normUpr)|fGroup,
> groups=fEpoch,
> 	pch=c(17,15,19), col=c(3:1),
> 	scales = list(
> 		y = list(relation = "sliced",axs = "r", alternating =
> 0,tick.number=10),
> 		x = list(tick.number = 6)
> 	))
>
> It ALMOST does exactly what I. There are six small graphs, and each
> datapoint has a unique value on the y-axis (integers), but once I  
> try to
> change the y-axis tick labels to the list containing the names of each
> datapoint (characters), it lists only the first 10 names for all 6  
> graphs --
> that is, it repeats the names, so they are no longer unique and are  
> also
> mislabeled.
>
> If I change the relation to "same", the correct datapoints are  
> plotted for
> their appropriate group and hence appropriate plot, and every point is
> labeled correctly, but because only about 10 data points apply to each
> group, I have 6 plots with about 10 points each but all 40 names  
> listed in
> every one.
>
> Essentially, I need the graph the results when relation is set to  
> "same",
> but with blank labels removed (like when relation is set to  
> "sliced") and
> thus scaled correctly, but the labels cannot be changed into  
> integers, which
> is what happens when relation is set to "slice."
>
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT