Just any plot but put say 100 items in the legend. If you include text with
each item it clearly will not fit on any plot. So one workable example would be
to add a legend with a 100 or more items to your plot of choice.
Thanks for the suggestion.
On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:14 AM, John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Try something like this:
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> legend('bottom', leg.txt, horiz = TRUE, cex=.75)
>
> A workable example is requested and would have been helpful.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Burton <rkevinbur...@charter.net>
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 8:47:36 AM
> Subject: [R] Legend that is big?
>
> I can put a legend on a plot with something like:
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> legend('bottom', leg.txt, horiz = TRUE, fill = colors)
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>
> But what if the arrays leg.txt and colors are too big? I would still like to
> provide a legend but to save space I would like to just show small boxes
> with the color filled in so it will still fit on the plot. If I could adjust
> the size of the boxes (at least in one dimension) that would be desirable.
> As a bonus and if there is room I would like to label the top and bottom
> (left and right) of the legend with text indicating a minimum and maximum. I
> am relatively new to 'R' and especially 'R' graphics so any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
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>
> Thank you.
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> Kevin
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