Hi
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
> I am trying to create a lattice plot and would like to later, i.e. after
> the plot is drawn, add a grey rectangle behind a portion of it.
> The following works except that the rectrangle is on top of and
> obscures a portion of the chart. I also tried adding col = "transparent"
> to the gpar list but that did not help -- I am on windows and
> perhaps the windows device does not support transparency?
Correct.
> At any rate, how can I place the rectangle behind the plotted
> points without drawing the rectangle first?
>
> library(lattice)
> library(grid)
> trellis.unfocus()
> x <- 1:10
> xyplot(x ~ x | gl(2,1), layout = 1:2)
> trellis.focus("panel", 1, 1)
> grid.rect(w = .5, gp = gpar(fill = "light grey"))
> trellis.unfocus()
The user-interface is a little rough, but this can be done by accessing
the underlying grid objects. Here's an example, with explanatory bits
interspersed ...
# "grab" the lattice plot as a grid gTree
# There are warnings, but they are ignorable
latticeplot <- grid.grabExpr(print(xyplot(x ~ x | gl(2,1),
layout = 1:2)))
# Demonstrate that the gTree faithfully replicates the
# original lattice plot (not necessary, just to to what's going on)
grid.newpage()
grid.draw(latticeplot)
# Explore the gTree (just to to show what's going on)
# Better user-interface would be nice here ...
childNames(latticeplot)
# Identify which children are which
# (appropriate grob names would be nice here)
lapply(latticeplot$children, class)
# Identify where each child is drawn
latticeplot$childrenvp
lapply(latticeplot$children, "[[", "vp")
# Add a rect (starts off on top of everything else)
# NOTE that rect has to have correct vpPath
plotwithrect <- addGrob(latticeplot,
rectGrob(w = .5, gp = gpar(fill = "light grey"),
vp=vpPath("plot1.toplevel.vp",
"plot1.panel.1.1.vp")))
# Check this draws what we expect (just to show what's going on)
grid.newpage()
grid.draw(plotwithrect)
# Reorder children to put rect at back
# Appropriate user-interface would be nice here ...
nc <- length(plotwithrect$childrenOrder)
plotwithrect$childrenOrder <-
plotwithrect$childrenOrder[c(nc, 1:(nc - 1))]
# Final result
grid.newpage()
grid.draw(plotwithrect)
Paul
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