Thanks for the reply. The one you provide is the vertical legend not for horizontal legend. x.intersp= simply spreads out the space between symbols and legend text.
using the existing data in R for example, barplot(VADeaths, names=rep("", 4), col=gray(1:3/4+0.01)) #five levels in this data, but just for example purpose legend <- c("Strongly disagree/disagree", "Neutral", "Strongly agree/agree") par(xpd = TRUE) legend("bottom", legend=legend, fill=gray(1:3/4+0.01), inset=-0.2, bty='n', horiz=T, x.intersp=0.5) On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:27 PM, arun <smartpink...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > Try this. > > plot(0) > legend("topright", inset=c(0.2,0),legend=c("Strongly > disagree/disagree","Neutral","Strongly agree/agree"), lty=1:3, pch=1:3, > x.intersp=2) > > A.K. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jianyun Wu <jianyun.fred...@gmail.com> > To: r-help@r-project.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:45 PM > Subject: [R] adjust space between horizontal legend text in a barplot > > Hi All, > > I produced a barplot and made a horizontal legend below the graph. > Because the results are from a survey, there are three levels, namely > strongly disagree/disagree, neutral and strongly agree/agree. > > > > rownames(survey)[1] "Strongly disagree/disagree" "Neutral" > "Strongly agree/agree" > > > > As in the output above, there is a large space between "Neutral" and > "Strongly agree/agree". > > This large space appears in the horizontal legend as well. > > > > So is there anyway I can reduce such a large gap in the legend when it > is superimposed horizontally? > > > > Thanks and Regards > > > > Fred > > [[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. > > [[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.