Dear David,

Thank you. That was very clear.  I will try to make minimal examples in the
future.

Best Regards,
Ashim

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:50 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> On Nov 18, 2011, at 1:51 AM, Ashim Kapoor wrote:
>
>  Dear Dennis,
>>
>> Many thanks.I was wondering if there was a way to edit the variable and
>> put
>> \n's in it. Is there ?
>>
>
> Of course there is. The key however ti to realize that at the moment there
> are "\\"'s and "n"'s but not any single characters with the representation
> "\n" when printed to the console.
>
> If you are going to attempt to replace the "\\"'s with sub or gsub you
> need to futher realize that in order to match the "\\"'s in the current
> vactor you will need to further escape the "|" characters in the regex
> pattern
>
> > var
> [1] "ee\\nee"
> > nchar(var)
> [1] 6
> > grep("n", var)
> [1] 1               # so there are ordinary "n" in there
> > grep("\\\\", var)
> [1] 1               # and you need to use quadruple escapes (actually
>                      escape-1 to generate an escape and escape-2 to match
> the escaped-\
>
>
> imports$Indicator <- sub("\\\\n", "\n", imports$Indicator)
> > imports
>                                           Indicator    Units Expression
> time       X03 id
> 1.7                            Gold & silver imports Rs.crore       Ival
>  7  66170.46  1
> 2.7                                     Gold imports Rs.crore       Ival
>  7  65337.72  2
> 3.7         Chemicals and related\n products imports Rs.crore       Ival
>  7  62669.86  3
> 4.7  Pearls precious &\n semiprecious stones imports Rs.crore       Ival
>  7  33870.17  4
> 5.7         Metaliferrous ores & metal scrap imports Rs.crore       Ival
>  7  36779.35  5
> snipped further output
>
> You need to work on learning to create minimal code.
>
> --
> David.
>
>
>
>> Thank you,
>> Ashim
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Dennis Murphy <djmu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi:
>>>
>>> This worked for me - I needed to modify some of the strip labels to
>>> improve the appearance a bit and also reduced the strip font size a
>>> bit to accommodate the lengths of the strings. The main thing was to
>>> change \\n to \n.
>>>
>>> Firstly, I created a new variable called Indic as a character variable
>>> and then did some minor surgery on three of the strings:
>>>
>>> Indic <- as.character(imports$**Indicator)
>>> Indic[3 + 6 *(0:5)] <- "Chemicals and related\n   products imports"
>>> Indic[4 + 6 *(0:5)] <- "Pearls, semiprecious &\nprecious stones imports"
>>> Indic[5 + 6 *(0:5)] <- "Metaliferrous ores &\nmetal scrap imports"
>>>
>>> # Read Indic into the imports data frame as a factor:
>>> imports$Indic <- factor(Indic)
>>>
>>> # Redo the plot:
>>> barchart(X03/1000 ~ time | Indic,
>>>       data = imports[which(imports$time != 1), ],
>>>       horiz = FALSE,
>>>       scales = list(x = list(rot=45, labels=paste("Mar",2007:2011))**),
>>>       par.strip.text=list(**lineheight=1, lines=2, cex = 0.8))
>>>
>>> Dennis
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Ashim Kapoor <ashimkap...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I have the following data, which has \\n in place of \n. I introduced
>>>>
>>> \n's
>>>
>>>> in the csv file so that I could use it in barchart in lattice. When I
>>>> did
>>>> that and read it into R using read.csv, it read it as \\n. My question
>>>> is
>>>> how do I introduce "\n" in the middle of a long string of quoted text so
>>>> that lattice can make multiline strips. Hitting Enter which is supposed
>>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>>> introduce \n's does'nt work because when I goto the middle of the line
>>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>>> press enter Open Office thinks that I am done with editing my text and
>>>> takes me to the next line.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  dput(imports)
>>>>>
>>>> structure(list(Indicator = structure(c(5L, 4L, 2L, 12L, 8L, 7L,
>>>> 5L, 4L, 2L, 12L, 8L, 7L, 5L, 4L, 2L, 12L, 8L, 7L, 5L, 4L, 2L,
>>>> 12L, 8L, 7L, 5L, 4L, 2L, 12L, 8L, 7L, 5L, 4L, 2L, 12L, 8L, 7L
>>>> ), .Label = c("", "Chemicals and related\\n products imports",
>>>> "Coal export", "Gold imports", "Gold & silver imports", "Iron ore
>>>>
>>> export",
>>>
>>>> "Iron & steel imports", "Metaliferrous ores & metal scrap imports",
>>>> "Mica export", "Ores & minerals\\nexport", "Other ores &\\nminerals
>>>> export",
>>>> "Pearls precious &\\n semiprecious stones imports", "Processed
>>>>
>>> minerals\\n
>>>
>>>> export"
>>>> ), class = "factor"), Units = structure(c(2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
>>>> 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
>>>> 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label =
>>>>
>>> c("",
>>>
>>>> "Rs.crore"), class = "factor"), Expression = structure(c(2L,
>>>> 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
>>>> 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
>>>> 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("", "Ival"), class = "factor"), time = c(7,
>>>> 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10,
>>>> 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1), X03 = c(66170.46,
>>>> 65337.72, 62669.86, 33870.17, 36779.35, 27133.25, 71829.14, 67226.04,
>>>> 75086.89, 29505.61, 31750.99, 32961.26, 104786.39, 95323.8, 134276.63,
>>>> 76263, 36363.61, 41500.36, 140440.36, 135877.91, 111269.69, 76678.27,
>>>> 36449.89, 36808.06, 162253.77, 154346.72, 124895.76, 142437.03,
>>>> 42872.16, 43881.85, 109096.024, 103622.438, 101639.766, 71750.816,
>>>> 36843.2, 36456.956), id = c(1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 1L, 2L, 3L,
>>>> 4L, 5L, 6L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 1L,
>>>> 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 6L)), row.names = c("1.7",
>>>> "2.7", "3.7", "4.7", "5.7", "6.7", "1.8", "2.8", "3.8", "4.8",
>>>> "5.8", "6.8", "1.9", "2.9", "3.9", "4.9", "5.9", "6.9", "1.10",
>>>> "2.10", "3.10", "4.10", "5.10", "6.10", "1.11", "2.11", "3.11",
>>>> "4.11", "5.11", "6.11", "1.1", "2.1", "3.1", "4.1", "5.1", "6.1"
>>>> ), .Names = c("Indicator", "Units", "Expression", "time", "X03",
>>>> "id"), class = "data.frame", reshapeLong = structure(list(varying =
>>>> structure(list(
>>>>  X03 = c("X03.07", "X03.08", "X03.09", "X03.10", "X03.11",
>>>>  "X03.1")), .Names = "X03", v.names = "X03", times = c(7,
>>>> 8, 9, 10, 11, 1)), v.names = "X03", idvar = "id", timevar = "time"),
>>>>
>>> .Names
>>>
>>>> = c("varying",
>>>> "v.names", "idvar", "timevar")))
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> On which I want to run
>>>>
>>>> barchart(X03/1000~time|**Indicator,
>>>>       data=imports[which(imports$**time!=1),],
>>>>       horiz=F,
>>>>       scales=list(x=list(rot=45,**labels=paste("Mar",2007:2011))**),
>>>>       par.strip.text=list(**lineheight=1,lines=2))
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> Ashim.
>>>>
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