On 23 Oct 2006, at 23:52, Deepayan Sarkar wrote: > On 10/23/06, Alex Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Can anyone explain why the key is inverted versus the bar >> >> order? >> > >> > Because the key goes from top to bottom, while cartesian >> coordinates >> > go from bottom to top. Neither can really be any other way by >> default, >> > if you think about it. I did promise someone that I would add an >> > option to reverse the order in key, but looks like I haven't >> done that >> > yet. >> > >> >> In the case of barchart, what would be the justification for not >> ordering the bars (in a group) as for the key, or vice versa? Please >> forgive my ignorance - I am curious to understand the design >> principles. I am certainly very pleased to have the power of >> auto.key in lattice - it's the main reason why I stopped using the >> default plot function. > > No particular reason, it's just (I think) one of the weaknesses in the > Trellis design. There is no actual communication between legends and > panel functions.... > ... > -Deepayan
Thank you for your excellent explanation. I look forward to your fix. -Alex ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
