Hi again thank you to those who replied. I actually figured out a simple way (which does entail transforming the data, oh well...) and I thought I throw it out there just in case someone needs to solve a similar problem. Apologies if it is in fact obvious.
Once the right levels for the contouring have been identified (for example using the quantile function), just use "cut()" on your data with those as the breaks, and the argument labels=F. This will return your data in the form of integers, with a unique integer associated to all the values that fall in a given interval identified by your levels. Use filled.contour on your new data, and work on the key.axes={axes(4,at=...,labels=...)} argument to print the right values besides the color key. For what is worth. And thanks again Jim and Clint Claudia ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.