On Dec 4, 2010, at 8:25 AM, Andrew Collier wrote:

hi,

i am trying to figure out how to put a caption on the colour scale of a levelplot. there does not seem to be an option for this in levelplot().

Agreed. I could not find one in the levelplot help page or in the chapter of Lattice on legends and keys. Sarkar basically says you need to use grid calls if you want to go beyond the basics.

i tried using mtext() but as soon as you put the text far out enough on
the right of the plot, it goes beyond the plot boundary. so i tried to
extend the margin on the right of the plot using par(mar) but this did
not have any effect on the plot area.

i would really appreciate some help with this because having a caption
on a colour scale is rather fundamental and certainly something that a
journal referee is going to pick up on!

Your question has no reproducible example but suggests that you do not understand that levelplot is a lattice function and that lattice uses grid graphics. The par arguments that lattice understands (or is willing to deal with gracefully) are passed through trellis.par.set(). The current settings are accessible with:

trellis.par.get()

Since lattice is implemented with grid graphics, you may get useful information from:

require(grid) # lattice apparently loads gpar and its help page but doesn't
                # actually load grid. (I don't understand this. )
?gpar() # Which has examples that may allow you to get a better understanding # of how to layer new material on top of existing grid graphics.

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

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