thanks david, yes, you are right PART of the confusion is because of what you mentioned (sorry for that) but going back to my own data this is JUST PART of the problem…
...see my reproducible example teq<-structure(list(site = structure(c(4L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 3L, 1L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 4L, 3L, 1L, 3L, 1L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 4L), .Label = c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E"), class = "factor"), lower_b_i = c(0.302, 0.956, 0.72, 1.21, 0.887, 0.728, 1.294, 20.493, 0.902, 0.031, 0.468, 2.318, 4.795, 89.581, 4.59, 3.366, 32.786, 5.506, 61.038, 1.485, 42.25, 31.279, 21.375, 96.62, 36.099, 30.173, 0.532, 1.005, 0.697, 6.248, 2.121, 0.576, 0.335, 0.442, 22.704, 18.244, 16.53, 626.664, 42.714, 59.87, 9.983, 110.158, 4.763, 3.363, 2.608, 2.41, 23.904, 73.281, 3618.353, 109.663, 21.797, 3.39), date_sampl_time_recs = structure(c(11L, 10L, 9L, 8L, 12L, 12L, 13L, 7L, 6L, 14L, 14L, 4L, 3L, 5L, 2L, 1L, 18L, 19L, 24L, 23L, 17L, 15L, 16L, 20L, 21L, 22L, 26L, 25L, 29L, 28L, 27L, 32L, 31L, 30L, 34L, 33L, 33L, 35L, 36L, 37L, 38L, 39L, 40L, 41L, 42L, 43L, 46L, 47L, 48L, 49L, 45L, 44L), .Label = c("2008-07-15, 2 h, 16/17", "2008-07-16, 2 h, 14/17", "2008-12-03, 4 h, 13/17", "2008-12-03, 4 h, 15/17", "2009-01-29, 24 h, 0/17", "2009-03-17, 24 h, 14/17", "2009-03-17, 24 h, 8/17", "2009-04-17, 135 h, 13/17", "2009-04-20, 96 h, 14/17", "2009-04-21, 24 h, 13/17", "2009-04-21, 24 h, 14/17", "2009-07-17, 168 h, 13/17", "2009-07-21, 24 h, 12/17", "2009-08-18, 24 h, 16/17", "2009-10-27, 168 h, 3/17", "2009-10-27, 168 h, 5/17", "2009-11-01, 24 h, 4/17", "2009-12-15, 24 h, 6/17", "2009-12-15, 24 h, 9/17", "2010-01-05, 12 h, 3/17", "2010-01-15, 168 h, 3/17", "2010-01-15, 168 h, 5/17", "2010-01-19, 24 h, 12/17", "2010-01-19, 24 h, 2/17", "2010-03-30, 24 h, 13/17", "2010-03-30, 24 h, 14/17", "2010-04-22, 168 h, 11/17", "2010-04-22, 168 h, 9/17", "2010-04-22, 24 h, 14/17", "2010-07-22, 168 h, 14/17", "2010-07-22, 168 h, 15/17", "2010-07-22, 24 h, 15/17", "2010-10-26, 168 h, 7/17", "2010-10-26, 24 h, 8/17", "2011-01-05, 12 h, 0/17", "2011-01-11, 168 h, 0/17", "2011-01-19, 168 h, 0/17", "2011-03-15, 168 h, 2/17", "2011-03-23, 168 h, 0/17", "2011-05-10, 168 h, 5/17", "2011-05-18, 168 h, 7/17", "2011-07-05, 168 h, 7/17", "2011-07-13, 168 h, 7/17", "2011-09-13, 168 h, 6/17", "2011-09-21, 168 h, 1/17", "2011-11-08, 168 h, 0/17", "2011-11-16, 168 h, 0/17", "2012-01-05, 12 h, 1/17", "2012-01-09, 12 h, 2/17" ), class = "factor")), .Names = c("site", "lower_b_i", "date_sampl_time_recs" ), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -52L)) ...and my code dotplot(date_sampl_time_recs ~ lower_b_i | site, data=teq, scales=list(x=list(log=TRUE)), xscale.components = xscale.components.logpower, layout=c(5,1), panel = function(x,y,...) { panel.grid(h=53, v=-1, lty="dotted", col="gray") panel.dotplot(x,y,...) medians <- median(x) panel.abline(v=medians, col.line="red", lty="dotted") means<-mean(x) panel.abline(v=means, col.line="blue", lty="dotted") } ) attach(teq) #check median values tapply(lower_b_i,site,median) #check mean values tapply(lower_b_i,site,mean) detach(teq) ...and now the question is why the plotting of means (but not medians) is wrong (check against results of tapply)? thanks -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/how-to-add-a-vertical-line-for-each-panel-in-a-lattice-dotplot-with-log-scale-tp4632513p4632760.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.