One option is to call `legend` twice and do some manual positioning. This worked for me:
plot(1:10) legend('topleft', lty=1:3, bty="n", legend=c('','','') ) legend('topleft', pch=c(20,8,1), bty="n", legend=c('clyde','irving','melvin'), inset=c(0.1,0)) You may need to fiddle with the amount of inset for your particular plot and device combination. On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > I would like to have a legend given in the manner > > legend("topleft",pch=c(20,8,1),lty=1:3,bty="n", > legend=c("clyde","irving","melvin")) > > but with the point symbol *NOT* being superimposed on the line segments that > are plotted. > > I saw that I can specify "merge=FALSE" in the call to legend() but this > gives results like unto > > ----* irving > > with the plot symbol being immediately juxtaposed to the plotted line > segment. I would like a space between them, like so: > > ---- * irving > > (See the difference?) > > I can see no arguments to legend that allow me to effect this. I can adjust > positioning of the legend text, but not of the plotted point character or > line segment. Is there any way to effect the desired result? Or is there a > "simple" adjustment that one could make to the code for legend() that would > allow me to accomplish what I want? > > Ta. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ 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.