Forgot that I had changed the original example code: You need this first to get the example to work: x <- LETTERS[1:10] y <- paste(LETTERS[1:10], letters[1:12],LETTERS[1:10])
------- David C -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David L Carlson Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 9:14 AM To: Jim Lemon; Rainer M Krug; r-help mailing list Subject: Re: [R] specify size of box around legend 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") ------------------------------------- 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
