R help - Apr 2012 - Scatterplot matrix with partly transformed axis

Hi,

I am wondering if anybody has experience with
scatterplot matrices where some (but NOT all) axis
are transformed and the labels are nicely plotted.

So far I looked into
1) pairs()
2) scatterplotMatrix() from package 'car'
3) splom() from packagae 'lattice'
4) plotmatrix() from 'ggplot2'

I can see no easy way to get what I want which is:
*) a scatterplot matrix of three variables
*) 2 of 3 variables should be log-transformed
*) the labels for the log transformed variables should be e^2 etc resp. 10^2
etc.
*) the variable names in the diagonal panel
*) no need for any densities
*) Correlation coefficients in the upper panel

I am not sure what is the best way to go to get a nice scatterplot matrix to
publish...

One example with pairs() so far...but I didn't get the log scales and the
labels:

panel.cor <- function(x, y, digits=2, prefix="", cex.cor)
{
	usr <- par("usr"); on.exit(par(usr))
	par(usr = c(0, 1, 0, 1))
	r <- abs(cor(x, y))
	txt <- format(c(r, 0.123456789), digits=digits)[1]
	txt <- paste(prefix, txt, sep="")
	if(missing(cex.cor)) cex <- 0.5/strwidth(txt)
	
	test <- cor.test(x,y)
	# borrowed from printCoefmat
	Signif <- symnum(test$p.value, corr = FALSE, na = FALSE,
			cutpoints = c(0, 0.001, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 1),
			symbols = c("***", "**", "*", ".",
" "))
	
	text(0.5, 0.5, paste(txt,Signif), cex = 2)
}

# Test with data
data(iris)
pairs(iris[1:3], lower.panel = function(...) panel.smooth(...,
col.smooth="grey"), upper.panel=panel.cor)


Maybe someone can help me here as I think this is also helpful to others with a
similar kind of problem.

Best regards,

Johannes

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