Thanks Petr! I checked both of your suggestions and nothing seems working for me. I don't understand why the well-formatted text string got re-aligned in the legend of plot.
This is what I got: Quantitles #Samples 100 2759 95 121 50 0 And here is what I'm looking for: Quantitles #Samples 100 2759 95 121 50 0 -----Original Message----- From: Petr PIKAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:35 PM To: Wang, Zhaoming (NIH/NCI) [C] Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Odp: [R] How to align the text in the legend Well, did you look at xjust, yjust options of legend? And maybe it would be worth to check adj graphic parameter see ?par Petr [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal dne 29.11.2007 18:14:55: > Hello, > > > > I tried to align lines of text in the legend of a plot. It always > defaults to the central alignment. How can I adjust it to be left > alignment? > > Here is the code fragment written in python using Rpy module: > > > > text = 'Quantiles #Loci\n' > > text += '%s %6d\n' % (' 100',totalloci) > > text += '%s %6d\n' % (' 95',per95cntloci) > > text += '%s %6d\n' % (' 50',per50cntloci) > > r.legend(20,30,text,cex=0.6,bty='n') > > > > > > Thanks > > Zhaoming > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.