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Phillip Y. Lipscy

23 Dec 2002 23 Dec '02

2:58 a.m.

Dear all, Does anybody know how to change the background color for the lattice output? I get an ugly brownish color by default and it's pretty gross. Also, any advice on how to change the labels for the multiple plots/histograms when they're produced? I've tried several things but the labels on each plot are always the same and something generic like "data.frame$column." How do you change them to something like "California" "Colorado" or "1920" "1930" etc.? BTW, can we expect an answer key for the Lattice Problem from HW8? The website is somewhat helpful but assumes a lot of technical know-how that we don't have. Thanks, Phillip. ------------------------------------------------- Phillip Y. Lipscy Perkins Hall Room #129 35 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)493-4893 lipscy(a)fas.harvard.edu First Year Student, Ph.D. Program Harvard University, FAS, Department of Government -------------------------------------------------

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Olivia Lau

23 Dec 23 Dec

2:38 p.m.

I've had precisely the same problems! I've tried lset(theme = col.whitebg()) to change the background color, but although it works for the demo, it doesn't work for me! I've also tried groups = as.character(year) to get the subplots to label themselves, but that also doesn't work...when I add the "panel = (x, y , ..." statement, it tells me that it can't find either x or y! Help? On a side note, this is really new "technology" ... I'm not sure if it's worth our time or effort under exam conditions to fool around with this. My two cents. Merry Christmas! Olivia. On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Phillip Y. Lipscy wrote:

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Phillip Y. Lipscy

27 Dec 27 Dec

3:34 p.m.

I think I finally got it to work. lset(theme = col.whitebg()) seems to do the job for the background color. For the graph labels, it seems like the variable by which the graphs are separated need to be in character form. -Phillip. ------------------------------------------------- Phillip Y. Lipscy Perkins Hall Room #129 35 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)493-4893 lipscy(a)fas.harvard.edu First Year Student, Ph.D. Program Harvard University, FAS, Department of Government ------------------------------------------------- Quoting Olivia Lau <olau(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>:

...

Dear all, Does anybody know how to change the background color for the lattice

output? I

get an ugly brownish color by default and it's pretty gross. Also, any

advice

on how to change the labels for the multiple plots/histograms when

they're

produced? I've tried several things but the labels on each plot are always

the

same and something generic like "data.frame$column." How do you change

them to

something like "California" "Colorado" or "1920" "1930" etc.? BTW, can we expect an answer key for the Lattice Problem from HW8? The

website

is somewhat helpful but assumes a lot of technical know-how that we don't

have.

Thanks, Phillip. ------------------------------------------------- Phillip Y. Lipscy Perkins Hall Room #129 35 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)493-4893 lipscy(a)fas.harvard.edu First Year Student, Ph.D. Program Harvard University, FAS, Department of Government ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gov1000-list mailing list gov1000-list(a)fas.harvard.edu http://www.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov1000-list

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Olivia Lau

3:45 p.m.

But what was the specific command you passed into xyplot() to get the labels to show up? As I mentioned before, groups = as.character(year) did not work for me... Olivia. On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Phillip Y. Lipscy wrote:

...

Dear all, Does anybody know how to change the background color for the lattice

output? I

get an ugly brownish color by default and it's pretty gross. Also, any

advice

on how to change the labels for the multiple plots/histograms when

they're

produced? I've tried several things but the labels on each plot are always

the

same and something generic like "data.frame$column." How do you change

them to

something like "California" "Colorado" or "1920" "1930" etc.? BTW, can we expect an answer key for the Lattice Problem from HW8? The

website

is somewhat helpful but assumes a lot of technical know-how that we don't

have.

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Phillip Y. Lipscy

3:54 p.m.

There's no specific command to pass in. The variable has to be a character variable before you run xyplot(). -Phillip. ------------------------------------------------- Phillip Y. Lipscy Perkins Hall Room #129 35 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)493-4893 lipscy(a)fas.harvard.edu First Year Student, Ph.D. Program Harvard University, FAS, Department of Government ------------------------------------------------- Quoting Olivia Lau <olau(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>:

...

I think I finally got it to work. lset(theme = col.whitebg()) seems to do

the

job for the background color. For the graph labels, it seems like the

variable

by which the graphs are separated need to be in character form. -Phillip. Quoting Olivia Lau <olau(a)fas.harvard.edu>du>: > I've had precisely the same problems! I've tried > > lset(theme = col.whitebg()) > > to change the background color, but although it works for the demo, it > doesn't work for me! > > I've also tried > > groups = as.character(year) > > to get the subplots to label themselves, but that also doesn't

work...when

> I add the "panel = (x, y , ..." statement, it tells me that it can't

find

> either x or y! > > Help? > > On a side note, this is really new "technology" ... I'm not sure if

it's

> worth our time or effort under exam conditions to fool around with

this.

> My two cents. > > Merry Christmas! > > Olivia. > > On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Phillip Y. Lipscy wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > Does anybody know how to change the background color for the lattice > output? I > > get an ugly brownish color by default and it's pretty gross. Also,

any

> advice > > on how to change the labels for the multiple plots/histograms when > they're > > produced? I've tried several things but the labels on each plot are

always

> the > > same and something generic like "data.frame$column." How do you

change

> them to > > something like "California" "Colorado" or "1920" "1930" etc.? > > > > BTW, can we expect an answer key for the Lattice Problem from HW8?

The

> website > > is somewhat helpful but assumes a lot of technical know-how that we

don't

have.

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