Thanks for your clarifications, I use legends only when the plot is at its final size and also had a look at windows() before posting but at first I could not relate the legends' behaviour to the resizing effect.
Kind regards, Simone On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Simone Giannerini wrote: > >> Now I got how to reproduce it, it has nothing to do with multiple >> figure environment but rather with figure resizing. Here it is: >> >> curve(dnorm,col=4,from=-4,to=4); >> legend(-4,0.3,legend="curve",lty=1,col=4) >> >> # Now expand the figure to full screen >> >> legend(-4,0.2,legend="curve",lty=1,col=4) > > When you resize graphics, text stays the same size (on most devices) and > vector graphics does not. You can't expect the figure to be recomputed when > you resize (and if you expect so, your expectations will be unfufilled). > All that happens is that a low-level description is replayed. > > The windows() device does give you more options on resize. > >> >> 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 >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ______________________________________________________ >>> >>> >>> >>> Simone Giannerini Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche >>> >>> "Paolo Fortunati" Universita' di Bologna Via delle belle >>> >>> arti 41 - 40126 Bologna, ITALY Tel: +39 051 2098262 Fax: >>> >>> +39 051 232153 http://www2.stat.unibo.it/giannerini/ >>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >>> >>> >> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Institute of Mathematics Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de >>> >>> >> Lausanne STAT-IMA-FSB-EPFL, Station 8 CH-1015 Lausanne >>> >> Switzerland http://stat.epfl.ch/ Tel: + 41 (0)21 693 7907 >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ______________________________________________________ >>> >>> SG> Simone Giannerini Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche >>> SG> "Paolo Fortunati" Universita' di Bologna Via delle belle >>> SG> arti 41 - 40126 Bologna, ITALY Tel: +39 051 2098262 Fax: >>> SG> +39 051 232153 http://www2.stat.unibo.it/giannerini/ >>> >>> SG> ______________________________________________ >>> SG> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> SG> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> >> >> -- >> ______________________________________________________ >> >> Simone Giannerini >> Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati" >> Universita' di Bologna >> Via delle belle arti 41 - 40126 Bologna, ITALY >> Tel: +39 051 2098262 Fax: +39 051 232153 >> http://www2.stat.unibo.it/giannerini/ >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > -- > Brian D. 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