R in a Nutshell

lattice

Trellis graphics is a framework for data visualization developed at Bell Labs by Richard Becker, William Cleveland, et al., extending ideas presented in Bill Cleveland’s 1993 book Visualizing Data.

Lattice is best thought of as an implementation of Trellis graphics for R. It is built upon the grid graphics engine and requires the grid add-on package. It is not (readily) compatible with traditional R graphics tools. The public interface is based on the implementation in S-PLUS, but features several extensions, in addition to incompatibilities introduced through the use of grid. To the extent possible, care has been taken to ensure that existing Trellis code written for S-PLUS works unchanged (or with minimal change) in lattice. If you are having problems porting S-PLUS code, read the entry for panel in the documentation for xyplot. Most high-level Trellis functions in S-PLUS are implemented, with the exception of piechart.

Functions

Function	Description
Rows	Convenience function to extract a subset of a list. Usually used in creating keys.
as.shingle, as.factorOrShingle	Functions to handle shingles.
axis.default	Default function for drawing axes in lattice plots.
banking	Calculates banking slope.
barchart	Draws bar charts.
bwplot	Draws box plots.
canonical.theme	Initialization of a display device with appropriate graphical parameters.
cloud	Generic function to draw 3D scatter plots and surfaces. The "formula" methods do most of the actual work.
col.whitebg	Initialization of a display device with ...