The help for for contourplot answers this question in the description of the
formula (x) argument.
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On June 1, 2015 7:02:00 AM EDT, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at
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>R-sig-mac would be a better place to ask. Or are you being bitten by R
>FAQ 7.22?
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>On June 1, 2015 6:24:18 AM EDT, ivo welch <ivo.welch at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>Dear R (3.2.0, osx) experts: I would like to create contourplots from
>>irregular data frames (i.e., not a matrix on a grid). I am getting
>>inconsistent results from lattice contourplot(). sometimes it works
>>(quartz plot on contours), sometimes it doesn't (blank plot = nada).
>>I have tried variations from
>>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10805093/contour-plot-from-data-frame
>>, but I do not understand the problem here. contourplot gives no
>>error messages.
>>
>>an example is
>>
>> require(lattice)
>>
>> d <- data.frame( x = (1:30 + rnorm(30)), y = (1:30 + rnorm(30))
)
>> d <- within(d, z <- sin(x+y))
>>
>> quartz()
>> contourplot( z ~ x * y, data = d)
>>
>>am I committing an error, or is there something more robust or at
>>least verbose, perhaps?
>>
>>help appreciated. /iaw
>>
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>>Ivo Welch (ivo.welch at gmail.com)
>>http://www.ivo-welch.info/
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