David L Carlson <dcarl...@tamu.edu> writes: > Also you can specify the upper left/lower right coordinates of the legend box: > > # Get the default positions/sizes > plot(1, 1) > a <- legend(x="topleft", legend = x, title = "L 1") > b <- legend(x="bottomleft", legend = y, title = "L 2") > > # Use those to change the box size > plot(1, 1) > legend(x=c(a$rect$left, a$rect$left+b$rect$w), y=c(a$rect$top, > a$rect$top-a$rect$h), legend = x, title = "L 1") > legend(x="bottomleft", legend = y, title = "L 2")
Interesting - I like it. Thanks, Rainer > > ------------------------------------- > David L Carlson > Department of Anthropology > Texas A&M University > College Station, TX 77840-4352 > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Jim Lemon > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 9:34 PM > To: Rainer M Krug; r-help mailing list > Subject: Re: [R] specify size of box around legend > > Hi Rainer, > You can use the text.width argument and override the calculated legend > text widths. > > Jim > > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: >> Hi >> >> assume the following code: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> plot(1,1) >> legend(x="topleft", legend = LETTERS[1:10], title = "L 1") >> legend(x="bottomleft", legend = paste(LETTERS[1:10], >> letters[1:12],LETTERS[1:10]), title = "L 2") >> legend(x="topright", legend = LETTERS[1:15], title = "L 3") >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> The box around L 1 is less wide than the box around L 2 due to automatic >> sizing of the box. >> >> Is there a way of specifying the width of the box, so that L 1 and L 2 >> have the same width? >> >> In the same sense: can I also specify the height of the legend, so that >> L 1 and L 3 have the same height? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rainer >> -- >> Rainer M. Krug >> email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de >> PGP: 0x0F52F982 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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