R lattice bar chart: specify colour of legend?

Question

My data looks like this:

service,rating_1,rating_2,rating_3,rating_4,rating_5
renew_patent,0,0,1,2,11
apply_benefit,21,20,121,828,1744
apply_employment_tribunal,0,0,0,0,0

I want R to print me a histogram for each row, with the columns as the bars of the histogram.

I've got this so far:

require(lattice)
data <- read.csv("test.csv", header = TRUE)
colors = c('red', 'orange', 'yellow', 'blue', 'green')
barchart(rating_1+rating_2+rating_3+rating_4+rating_5 ~ service, data=data, 
  auto.key=list(space='right'), scales=list(x=list(rot=45)), 
  ylab="Percentage of total", col=colors)

It's working, but it's only changing the colour of the bars, not the colour of the legend.

How can I specify the colour of the legend as well as the bars?

Answer 1

Rather than passing a col= parameter to barchart, lattice much prefers if you change the par.settings. In this case. the color of the bars is determined by superpose.polygon because you have different groups of ratings. This should do what you want

data<-data.frame(
    service = c("renew_patent", "apply_benefit", "apply_employment_tribunal"),
    rating_1 = c(0, 21, 0), 
    rating_2 = c(0, 20, 0),
    rating_3 = c(1, 121, 0), 
    rating_4 = c(2, 828, 0),
    rating_5 = c(11, 1744, 0)
)

colors = c('red', 'orange', 'yellow', 'blue', 'green')
barchart(rating_1+rating_2+rating_3+rating_4+rating_5 ~ service, data=data, 
  auto.key=list(space='right'), scales=list(x=list(rot=45)), 
  ylab="Percentage of total", par.settings=list(superpose.polygon=list(col=colors)))