All, Thanks anyway folks, but I'm going to call myself a bonehead and move on now that I've found it. The key.arrow argument in vectorplot will do what I need to make a scale legend. Thanks all!
Adrienne On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Adrienne Wootten <amwoo...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > Jim, > > Thanks! Interestingly when working with lengthKey it gives me an error > that plot.new hasn't been called after the plot has been created with > vectorplot. Really bizarre to me. > > A > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Adrienne, >> I'm not sure if this will help, but lengthKey in the plotrix package >> will display a scale showing the relationship of vector length to >> whatever numeric value is being displayed. However, you do have to >> sort of the scaling manually. >> >> Jim >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Adrienne Wootten <amwoo...@ncsu.edu> >> wrote: >> > All, >> > >> > Your help with this is greatly appreciated! >> > >> > I'm working with the vectorplot function in rasterVis to produce wind >> > vector maps (pretty much like the code in here - >> > https://rpubs.com/alobo/vectorplot), but I was wondering about a >> legend. >> > >> > The vectors that vectorplot produces are wonderful. What I'm trying to >> do >> > is get a scale legend to go with it. In other words, have a vector >> outside >> > the main plot which provides a point of reference for the vectors in the >> > plot. Something alike to what GrADS does (for those familiar), is what >> I'm >> > hoping to get to (for an example, the first chart on this page >> > http://www.wishingwork.com/grads/graphics-controls/vector-graphics.html >> ) >> > >> > I haven't seen this done yet with R, at least not from what I could find >> > with all the forums. If anyone has an idea on how to do this, I >> > tremendously appreciate it! >> > >> > Thanks all! >> > >> > Adrienne >> > >> > -- >> > Adrienne Wootten >> > Ph.D Candidate / Graduate Research Assistant >> > State Climate Office of North Carolina >> > Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences >> > North Carolina State University >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > 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. >> > > > > -- > Adrienne Wootten > Ph.D Candidate / Graduate Research Assistant > State Climate Office of North Carolina > Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences > North Carolina State University > -- Adrienne Wootten Ph.D Candidate / Graduate Research Assistant State Climate Office of North Carolina Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
