I have recently have become addicted to those conditioned scatterplots you can make with the "lattice" package to show interactions between two continuous variables, as in Baayen (2008, p. 40), or like this:
http://nestor.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0her/Statistics/xyplot1.png But due to the arcane nature of lattice (and let's face it, R graphics in general), I've mostly been stuck with using the default settings (though years ago I managed to find some useful tricks on the web - which of course I've since misplaced). In particular, someday I'd like to have answers to the following: (1) What is each part of the lattice xyplot called? In particular, what's the name of the label-boxes at the top of each panel, and what's the name of the shaded part that shows what subset is represented in each panel? (It's hard to search for help if you don't even know what things are called.) (2) How do you control the color of that shaded part? Apparently you can turn off color for lattice entirely, but this can be overridden, so when I actually use the xyplot function the colors just reappear again, and I have no idea which subfunction is doing this. (3) How do you put your own text into those label boxes, instead of having the variable name appear? I know with R you get what you pay for, namely a homemade D&D game. But still. -- James Myers Graduate Institute of Linguistics National Chung Cheng University 168 University Road, Min-Hsiung Chia-Yi 62102 TAIWAN Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers/ Phone: 886-5-242-8251 Fax: 886-5-272-1654
