The primary recommendation is to use the "y ~ x" formula rather than the "~ y | x" formula. The place to look first is in the help files
?bwplot ?panel.bwplot Here is a example that matches your data structure Rich tmp <- data.frame(y=rnorm(20), x=rep(letters[1:2], each=10)) bwplot(y ~ x, data=tmp) bwplot(x ~ y, data=tmp) ## slightly longer, and illustrating the ## horizontal= and xlab= and ylab= arguments bwplot(y ~ x, data=tmp, horizontal=FALSE, xlab="group") bwplot(x ~ y, data=tmp, horizontal=TRUE, ylab="group") On 9/6/12, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > I've looked again at Deepayan Sakar's 'Lattice' book and not seeing the > information I know must be in there. A clue stick would be much > appreciated. > > A pair of box-and-whisker plots for two conditions of the same data set > display each box plot horizontally (see attached pH figure). Relations of > the two are not as easily seen as they would be if the two panels had the > plots oriented vertically. Alternatively, the panels could be oriented > horizontally so the two plots could be visually compared more easily. > > The command I used to produce the attached figure is: > > bwplot( ~ pH | era, data = chem.cast, main = 'pH', xlab = 'Standard Units') > > What do I add to this to change the plot orientations to vertical? And, > where in the book are the details discussed? > > TIA, > > Rich > ______________________________________________ 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.