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RE: [S] SP2000, Trellis, and scripts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Thu Sep 2 14:12:34 1999
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:04:09 +0100 (BST)
From: Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Rick Ditmars <rditmars@geomega.com>
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Rick Ditmars wrote:
> Thank you, Prof. Ripley, for your quick response. Adding print functions
> solved the problem. As for my color selection, hard copy is on white
> background, tmp.sym makes other changes to default symbols and colors (see
> below), and I am afraid that "Uncle Boss" over-rules "Uncle Bill" on such
> issues! ;)
Ah, but it seems you actually want this on paper, not on screen, so you
might want to try a win.printer not graphsheet colour scheme for trellis.
If you use trellis.device("win.printer"), you will use
device.call$background.color <- "Bright White"
(see trellis.device). It helps to get into Trellis's broader mindset.
> "Completions" only has two levels so I only modified the first two
> defaults. I increased the size of the symbols because ultimately the
> histograms and strip plots will be stacked on one page (portrait) and with
> the reduction the default size is too small. By the way, the combination
> is being accomplished by exporting to .wmf and handing over to our talented
> graphics artists who use Adobe Illustrator to combine the plots on one
> page, align the x-axes of the two plots, and make other prettifications. I
> have been able to do things like align axes with traditional graphics by
> tweeking various par() settings, but have not discovered how to do this
> with trellis graphics. If this can be accomplished with trellis graphs, it
> would remove one more burden off of the graphics staff.
Can you tell us what you mean by align? You might want to use
relation="same" in a scales argument to your Trellis calls. See
?trellis.args. I suspect you also want to set the device sizes in the
trellis.device calls.
After a lot of reluctance when it first came out, I learnt how to work
with Trellis not against it, but the information is not easy to find.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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