Hi Is this something like what you are looking for? I have put it on the right and heights etc are just a quick guess. (all i have time for) It may be a little too complicated for what you want but I thought of this first based on your description rather than the plot.
library(grid) library(lattice) # legend XY04.glay <- grid.layout(nrow = 8, ncol = 2, heights = unit(rep(1, 2), rep("cm", 2)), widths = unit(c(0.4, 0.8), c("in","in")), just = "centre") XY04.fmG <- frameGrob(layout = XY04.glay) k <-0 for (j in seq(1,8,2)){ k = k+1 XY04.fmG <- placeGrob(XY04.fmG, textGrob(lab = letters[1:4][k], just = 0, gp = gpar(cex = 0.8)), row = j, col = 1) XY04.fmG <- placeGrob(XY04.fmG, linesGrob(c(0.2,0.8), c(0.5, 0.5), gp = gpar(col = c(1:4)[k])), row = j, col = 2) XY04.fmG <- placeGrob(XY04.fmG, pointsGrob(c(0.2,0.8), c(0.5, 0.5), pch = j, gp = gpar(cex = 0.7, col = c(1:4)[k])), row = j, col = 2) } k = 0 for (j in seq(2,8,2)){ k = k+1 XY04.fmG <- placeGrob(XY04.fmG, rectGrob(width = 0.6, gp = gpar(col=k, alpha = 0.25, fill = k)), row = j, col = 2) } xyplot(Sepal.Length + Sepal.Width ~ Petal.Length + Petal.Width, iris, type = c("p", "r"), jitter.x = TRUE, jitter.y = TRUE, factor = 5, legend = list(right = list(fun = XY04.fmG)) ) Have a look at https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2005-April/069459.html and the following emails on the thread. Regards Duncan Duncan Mackay Department of Agronomy and Soil Science University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Email: home: mac...@northnet.com.au -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of sbihorel Sent: Thursday, 29 December 2016 13:51 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] How to overlay lines and rectangles in lattice plot key Hi, I would like to create a custom key for a lattice xyplot in which line elements are displayed on top of rectangle elements. In the example code below, the lines and rectangles are shown side by side (the legend itself is meaningless, but that is not the point). Is there a way to overlay these key elements (but not the text)? Thanks xyplot(Sepal.Length + Sepal.Width ~ Petal.Length + Petal.Width, iris, type = c("p", "r"), jitter.x = TRUE, jitter.y = TRUE, factor = 5, key = list( column=4, text=list(lab=letters[1:4]), lines=list(col=1:4, pch=1:4, type='b'), rectangles=list(col=1:4, alpha=0.25, border=FALSE) ) ) ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.