Look at the subplot function in the TeachingDemos package. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111
> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Steve Bellan > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 9:41 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] overlay histograms on map at map coordinates > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to visualize animal movement data characteristics > spatiotemporally by overlaying many different histograms on a map. I > want the histograms to be plotted at coordinates in the map that > matches a region they describe. If I was just doing this once, I'd > fiddle in Illustrator after R and avoid the headache. But I'll be > doing it many many times so it seems worth the elegance & > repeatability. > > For example, say we have the following data: > > covariate <- rep(letters[1:10], each = 100) > shape.pars <- rep(seq(.5,.7, length.out = 10), each = 100) > zz <- rgamma(1000, shape = shape.pars, scale = 2) > map <- data.frame(factor = unique(covariate), xx = rnorm(10), yy = > rnorm(10)) > > I'd like to be able to have 10 histograms plotted for each level of > the covariate at the coordinates specified in the map data.frame. > Ideally, I'd like to be able to specify whether they were plotted to > the left, right, top, bottom or center of the coordinates similar to > in text() and other graphical functions. Looking around the archives, > all I've come across are the viewport system in library(grid) which > doesn't seem to be able to handle plot() hist() or other such > functions. Otherwise, I could create viewports for each histogram > inside the map's coordinate system. > > Any ideas? Thanks! > > Steve > > > Steve Bellan > MPH, Epidemiology > PhD Candidate, Environmental Science, Policy & Management > Getz Lab > University of California, Berkeley > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
