On linux, I get
> dev.cur()
null device
1
> str(X11.options())
List of 15
$ display : chr ""
$ width : num NA
$ height : num NA
$ pointsize : num 12
$ bg : chr "transparent"
$ canvas : chr "white"
$ gamma : num 1
$ colortype : chr "true"
$ maxcubesize: num 256
$ fonts : chr [1:2]
"-adobe-helvetica-%s-%s-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
"-adobe-symbol-medium-r-*-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
$ xpos : int NA
$ ypos : int NA
$ title : chr ""
$ type : chr "cairo"
$ antialias : num 1
thanks,
Simone
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Martin Maechler
<maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> "SG" == Simone Giannerini <sgianner...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> on Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:08:17 +0100 writes:
>
> SG> Dear Mathieu, On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Mathieu
> SG> Ribatet <mathieu.riba...@epfl.ch> wrote:
> >> Dear Simone,
> >>
> >> Did mean that the legend (text and/or box) overlap with
> >> the Normal density?
>
> SG> no, I mean that the two legend() commands, which are
> SG> identical in all but the y-coordinates, produce
> SG> different results, namely boxes with different widths.
>
> I don't see that behavior at all, rather the two boxes have
> identical dimensions for me.
>
> What does dev.cur() say? if anything with "X11..." (as you are
> on Linux), what does
>
> str(X11.options())
>
> give?
>
>
> SG> Ciao
>
> SG> Simone
>
> >> If so then I think there's no problem as the legend is
> >> placed where you told R to do. And R won't check (for
> >> you) if it will overlap or not with pre-existing
> >> graphical elements.
> >>
> >> On my computer, I got the expected results - if I
> >> understood correctly your issue though. For information:
> >>
> >> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) Linux mathieu-laptop
> >> 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Fri Dec 19 16:29:52 UTC 2008
> >> i686 GNU/Linux (Ubuntu Intrepid)
> >>
> >> Cheers, Mathieu
> >>
> >> Simone Giannerini a écrit :
> >>>
> >>> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> there seems to be a problem with displayed legends when
> >>> a multiple figure environment is used, see the following
> >>> example:
> >>>
> >>> par(mfrow=c(1,2)) curve(dnorm,col=4,from=-4,to=4);
> >>> legend(-4,0.3,legend="curve",lty=1,col=4)
> >>> legend(-4,0.2,legend="curve",lty=1,col=4)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On my machines the first time the command legend() is
> >>> issued the legend box stretches over the
> >>> curve. Subsequent calls to legend seems to produce a
> >>> correct box instead.
> >>>
> >>> openSuse 11.0
> >>>
> >>> platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu arch x86_64 os
> >>> linux-gnu system x86_64, linux-gnu status Patched major
> >>> 2 minor 8.1 year 2009 month 01 day 07 svn rev 47501
> >>> language R version.string R version 2.8.1 Patched
> >>> (2009-01-07 r47501)
> >>>
> >>> I see this on the same version of R on Windows VISTA 32
> >>> bit as well; I do not see this behaviour on a machine
> >>> with R 2.8.0.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you,
> >>>
> >>> Simone
> >>> --
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> >>>
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Universita' di Bologna
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