On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Antje <niederlein-rs...@yahoo.de> wrote: > Hi Greg and all the others, > > thanks for your answer. The color-vector has the same length like the > at-vector but the recycling cannot be the reason, because only values > slightly above my "threshold" doe not appear blue. > I cannot find a good explanation of which colors are assigned to which value > ranges. > > I've made little example: > > #-------------------------------------------------------- > mat <- matrix(seq(1,5, length.out = 12), nrow = 3) > mat[1,2] <- 3.5 > > my.at <- seq(0.5,5.5) > my.col.regions <- rainbow(6) > > graph <- levelplot(t(mat[nrow(mat):1, ] ), at = my.at, col.regions = > my.col.regions) > print(graph) > > windows() > plot(1:10) > legend("topleft", legend = as.character(my.col.regions), col = > my.col.regions, pch = 18) > #-------------------------------------------------------- > > As you can see the green (position 3 in my.col.regions) disappears > completely in the levelplot (look at the color range at the right side!). > I guess it might also happen in my case... > > I've tested several cases and it looks like the length of the color-vector > should be one less than the at vector (which would make sense). > > Then, the rule might apply: > > [ at[1],at[2] ] = color[1] > ( at[2],at[3] ] = color[2] > ... > ( at[n-1],at[n] ] = color[n-1] > > > Please correct me if I'm wrong!!!
Nope, that's exactly what is happening. A more intutive explanation is: If 'at' has length n, then it defines n-1 intervals. Each interval gets a color. If there are exactly n-1 colors in col.regions, everything's fine. If there are fewer than n-1 colors, col.regions gets recycled. If there are more, a more or less "equally spaced" subset is chosen (this is what levelplot expects, as it was designed for smooth surfaces). As Greg pointed out, this all happens in level.colors(). -Deepayan ______________________________________________ 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.