Question

The following is the example I work on.

require(lattice)
data(barley)
xyplot(yield ~ year | site, data = barley)

I want to put different strip color for different sprips and font color is also different optimized with the backgroud color. For example:

strip background colors = c("black", "green4", "blue", "red", "purple", "yellow")
font color = c("white", "yellow", "white", "white", "green", "red")

Rough sketch of the first one is provided:

How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Here’s a clean and easily customizable solution.

myStripStyle(), the function that is passed in to the strip= argument of xyplot() uses the counter variable which.panel to select colors and also the value of factor.levels for the panel that’s currently being plotted.

If you want to play around with the settings, just put a browser() somewhere inside the definition of myStripStyle() and have at it!

bgColors <- c("black", "green4", "blue", "red", "purple", "yellow")
txtColors <- c("white", "yellow", "white", "white", "green", "red")

# Create a function to be passed to "strip=" argument of xyplot
myStripStyle <- function(which.panel, factor.levels, ...) {
    panel.rect(0, 0, 1, 1,
               col = bgColors[which.panel],
               border = 1)
    panel.text(x = 0.5, y = 0.5,
               font=2,
               lab = factor.levels[which.panel],
               col = txtColors[which.panel])
}    
xyplot(yield ~ year | site, data = barley, strip=myStripStyle)