Answer to you first question, try this at the start of bwplot to specify ordering:
bwplot(Error~factor(Method, levels = unique(Method)) On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> wrote: > Dear friends, > > I have two questions regarding the use of lattice. First some code: > > > ## begin code > > z <- cbind(rep(c("BIC", "ICL", "s_v", "Q_v", "sig-q", > "s_lsk", "s_lML", "s_mlsk", "s_mlML", "s_la8", > "s_haar"), each = 250), rep(c(5, 10, 20, 30, 50), each = 50)) > z <- rbind(cbind(z, 0), cbind(z, 20), cbind(z, 40)) > z <- cbind(z, rnorm(n = nrow(z))) > z <- as.data.frame(z) > names(z) <- c("Method", "sigma", "INU", "Error") > sigma <- as.numeric(levels(z$sigma)) > sigmaExprList <- lapply(sigma, function(s) bquote(italic(sigma) == . > (s))) sigmaExpr <- as.expression(sigmaExprList) > bwplot(Error~Method | sigma, data = z[z[,"INU"] == 0,],scales=list > (rot=90), horiz = F, xlab = "Method", ylab = "Relative Error", > strip = function(which.given, which.panel, var.name, > strip.levels = FALSE, > strip.names = TRUE, ...) { > strip.default(which.given, which.panel, > var.name = sigmaExpr[which.panel], > strip.levels = FALSE, > strip.names = TRUE, ...) > }, > layout = c(5,1), col = "red") > > > ## end code > > Question 1: how do I "force" the display of the "Method" in the > plotting to be in the same order (i.e., in the order of "BIC", "ICL", > "s_v", "Q_v", "sig-q", "s_lsk", "s_lML", "s_mlsk", "s_mlML", "s_la8", > "s_haar") as the input. As you may notice, it puts them in its own > merry order (I suspect in ascii alphabetical order, but that conjecture > is based entirely on my very few sample attempts). > > Question 2: I want to have 3x5 plots of the respective boxplots. > Something like: > Error ~ Method | sigma + INU? > But I want the labels for the sigma and the INU to be only in the > column and the rows (vertically here) as appropriate, in order to save > plotting space. How do I go about doing this? > > Please reply through the mailing list so that others may also benefit. > In any case, many thanks again for reading and for any help and > pointers! > > Best wishes, > Ranjan > > > -- > Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be > deleted on receipt. For those needing to send personal or professional > e-mail, please use appropriate addresses. > > ____________________________________________________________ > FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your > desktop! > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it. ______________________________________________ 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.