Re: [R] how to enlarge the legend

2022-10-09 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Thank you very much for the example. It works well. Best, Jinsong On 2022/10/10 3:48, Uwe Ligges wrote: I'd propose: plot.new() ltext <- "text" lobj <- legend("bottom", "", text.width=strwidth(ltext), fill = "gray", cex = 2) text(lobj$text, ltext) Best, Uwe Ligges On 09.10.2022 16:54, Jin

Re: [R] Reading Text files from UK Met Office into R again...

2022-10-09 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Does it say what the new format is? On 2022-10-09 13:01 , Nick Wray wrote: [...] > Up to 2010 everything's fine and dandy - the data is in nice neat columns > and I can download it and filter out what I don't want. But after 2010 the > format changes (The Met Office in fact say on their guideline

Re: [R] how to enlarge the legend

2022-10-09 Thread Uwe Ligges
I'd propose: plot.new() ltext <- "text" lobj <- legend("bottom", "", text.width=strwidth(ltext), fill = "gray", cex = 2) text(lobj$text, ltext) Best, Uwe Ligges On 09.10.2022 16:54, Jinsong Zhao wrote: Hi there, in the following code, I'd like to enlarge the filled box but not the legend

Re: [R] Reading Text files from UK Met Office into R again...

2022-10-09 Thread Ivan Krylov
On Sun, 9 Oct 2022 12:01:27 +0100 Nick Wray wrote: > Error in read.table("midas_wxhrly_201501-201512.txt", fill = T) : > duplicate 'row.names' are not allowed Since you don't pass the `header` argument, I think that the automatic header detection is here at play. This is what ?read.table has t

Re: [R] how to enlarge the legend

2022-10-09 Thread Bert Gunter
Nope. Sorry. Ignore my comment. box.lwd changes the width of the box line, bot the width of the box. -- Bert On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 8:08 AM Bert Gunter wrote: > Did you use the 'box.lwd' argument to set the width of the box? If so, why > does this not work for you? If not, set it to a bigger va

Re: [R] how to enlarge the legend

2022-10-09 Thread Bert Gunter
Did you use the 'box.lwd' argument to set the width of the box? If so, why does this not work for you? If not, set it to a bigger value. Cheers, Bert On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 7:55 AM Jinsong Zhao wrote: > Hi there, > > in the following code, I'd like to enlarge the filled box but not the > legend

[R] how to enlarge the legend

2022-10-09 Thread Jinsong Zhao
Hi there, in the following code, I'd like to enlarge the filled box but not the legend text. plot.new() legend("topleft", "text", fill = "gray") # filled box is too small legend("top", "text", fill = "gray", cex = 2) # filled box is ok but text is too large # I can use point to mimic fill

[R] Reading Text files from UK Met Office into R again...

2022-10-09 Thread Nick Wray
Hello I've had some invaluable help from folk about downloading files from the UK Met Office - unfortunately I now have another one which I can't solve and I wonder whether anyone's got any ideas. I'm trying to download hourly weather records from the Met Office https://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo