Thanks Peter, I'm using version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20). This version should be recent enough to pick up fundamentals such as this, right? I guess the obvious thing to do is update and try again...
Cheers, Steve ---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:55:20 -0600 > From: ehl...@ucalgary.ca > To: tgstew...@gmail.com > CC: smurray...@hotmail.com; r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] Unwanted boxes in legend > > On 2010-04-19 8:11, Thomas Stewart wrote: >> Try border=c(0,0,1,0). >> -tgs > > If the 'border' argument is not recognized, then this won't work. > > Steve: > What version of R are you using? I have no problems with the > suggestions I gave you in R 2.10.1 or R 2.11.0 alpha. > > -Peter Ehlers > >> >> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Steve Murraywrote: >> >>> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Thanks for the response, however I'm getting the following error message >>> when I execute the legend command using the 'border' argument: >>> >>> Error in legend(10, par("usr")[4], c("A", "B", : >>> unused argument(s) (border = FALSE) >>> >>> >>> Is anyone aware of any alternative means of switching off boxes around all >>> but one of the elements in a legend? >>> >>> Many thanks for any input, >>> >>> Steve >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------- >>>> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:13:40 -0600 >>>> From: ehl...@ucalgary.ca >>>> To: smurray...@hotmail.com >>>> CC: r-help@r-project.org >>>> Subject: Re: [R] Unwanted boxes in legend >>>> >>>> On 2010-04-15 11:10, Steve Murray wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dear all, >>>>> >>>>> I am using the following code to generate a legend in my plot >>> (consisting of both bars and points), but end up with boxes around my >>> points: >>>>> >>>>> legend(10, par("usr")[4], c("A", "B", "C", "D"), fill=c(NA,NA, "grey28", >>> NA), pch=c(16,4,NA,18), col=c("red","blue","grey28","yellow"), lty=FALSE, >>> bty="n", horiz=FALSE) >>>>> >>>>> I want a box around the third element of the legend (to represent the >>> bar 'fill' colour), but not for the others, where points are shown instead. >>>>> >>>>> What am I doing wrong above and how do I correct it? >>>> >>>> Add the 'border' argument: >>>> >>>> either >>>> >>>> border = FALSE # in which case no box is drawn for any element >>>> >>>> or >>>> >>>> border = c(NA, NA, "black", NA) >>>> >>>> -Peter Ehlers >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Many thanks, >>>>> >>>>> Steve >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________________________ >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Peter Ehlers >>>> University of Calgary >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >> > > -- > Peter Ehlers > University of Calgary _________________________________________________________________ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now ______________________________________________ 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.