On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Bert Gunter <gunter.ber...@gene.com> wrote: > David: > > I think one needs to carefully parse the xyplot help, where it says: > > "To use more than one legend, or to have arbitrary legends not > constrained by the structure imposed by key, use the legend argument. > " > > So I presume that this is to be interpreted as: "ONLY the legend > argument will be used when both key(including auto.key) and legend > arguments are given." However, this is not clear to me either. The > Help appears to leave the behavior when one tries to use both > unspecified.
The help could indeed use some love. Note however, that the entry for 'auto.key' (surely relevant here) says that: More precisely, if 'auto.key' is not 'FALSE', 'groups' is non-null, and there is no 'key' or 'legend' argument specified in the call, a key is created with 'simpleKey' with 'levels(groups)' as the first ('text') argument. And that condition is not satisfied here. So that leaves the following two options (use key=, or update). The documentation is silent about whether or not these should be successful, but fortunately both seem to work. xyplot(Sepal.Length+Sepal.Width~Petal.Length+Petal.Width, data=iris, groups = Species, key = simpleKey(text = levels(iris$Species), space="right"), legend=list(bottom=list(fun=grid.text,args=list(label="youpi !")))) ## or p <- xyplot(Sepal.Length+Sepal.Width~Petal.Length+Petal.Width, data=iris, groups=Species, auto.key=list(space="right")) update(p, legend=list(bottom=list(fun=grid.text,args=list(label="youpi !")))) (I wish that reading lattice help would be less like trying to follow an Asimov robot story, but there are too many possible interactions to document both comprehensively and accurately.) -Deepayan ______________________________________________ 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.