From deepayansarkar@yahoo.com  Mon Nov 12 16:57:39 2001
From: deepayansarkar@yahoo.com (Deepayan Sarkar)
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 08:57:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Rd] Filled Contour.
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10111121120130.5888-100000@humilis>
Message-ID: <20011112165739.11185.qmail@web13908.mail.yahoo.com>



To answer the last part of your question, there is a
preliminary version of levelplot (as yet slow, and
without an implementation of contours) already in the
lattice package (under development).

--- H C Pumphrey <hcp@met.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I'm a big user of level plots. Because
> filled.contour() didn't do exactly
> what I wanted, I hacked at it a bit to add these
> options:
> 
> (*) Even spacing in the key, even if the contours
> are not evenly spaced.
> 
> (*) Horizontal key
> 
> (*) options to not use layout() and to plot only the
> level plot _or_ 
>     only the key.  This means you can use layout
> yourself to (e.g.) 
>     have several level plots which share a key.
> 
> (*) overlay some or all of the level boundaries with
> contour lines.
> 
> Now, I find this useful. If I am the only one, I'll
> go away and shut up
> but if anyone else thinks these are generally useful
> enhancements then
> I could clean up filled.contour.{R,Rd} and find out
> how to submit them. 
> 
> The current docs say "In future [filled.contour()]
> is likely to be
> replaced by a genuine \code{levelplot} function
> which will work in
> multipanel displays." If this is going to happen in
> the foreseeable
> future, then it will certainly be a better solution
> than mine. Could
> anyone fill me in on  what is happening on this
> front? 
> 
> many thanks, 
> 
> Hugh
> 
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[Rd] Filled Contour.
Deepayan Sarkar