Hi Gabriel.
For future reference, phytools has a couple of functions that could be
useful. add.simmap.legend (e.g.,
http://www.phytools.org/blog/18Nov16-post.png), used on my blog here:
http://blog.phytools.org/2016/11/updates-to-permit-user-control-of-line.html
and add.color.bar (e.g.,
This is what finally worked for me for setting up the plot with the
legend how I wanted:
(result is in attached PDF)
Perhaps some of you will find it useful for your own work...
#Zeileis et al.'s function for drawing palettes
pal <- function(col, border = "light gray", ...)
{
n <- length(col)
Hi Gabriel.
I recommend add.simmap.legend in phytools.
For this, though, I would not use par(mfrow) to split the window into
multiple plotting devices, but rather xlim or ylim in plotTree (or
analogous arguments in plot.phylo) to resize the plot area to
accommodate the legend.
You should