On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 03:08:11 +0000 (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > > > <epurdom <at> stanford.edu> writes: > > > >: > >: Full_Name: Elizabeth Purdom > >: Version: 1.9.1 > >: OS: Windows XP > >: Submission from: (NULL) (171.64.102.199) > >: > >: It would be nice if legend had the option of some default locations you > >could > >: choose instead of entering specific coordinates, like "topleft", > >: "topright","topcenter", etc. based on par("usr") coordinates. I know I've > >wanted > >: it so often I've made my own simple non-robust wrap-around, so I don't > >have > >to > >: remember or parse the xjust and yjust options necessary to make it work. Of > >: course there should be the option of entering in your own coordinates. > > > >Check out smartlengend in package gtools which is part of the gregmisc > >bundle. I agtee its a useful feature and it would be nice if that > >feature migrated to the base graphics. > > I've put both the title and keyword placement of the legend into > legend() now, in R-devel. I was unaware of the smartlegend() function > (which is actually in gplots); I've just now added an "inset" > parameter like it has. The specification for the location is slightly > different than smartlegend() uses. Because legend() handles the > second parameter in a strange way and I didn't want to fiddle with > that, I put the specification entirely in the first parameter: you > say you want the legend at one of "bottomright", "bottom", > "bottomleft", "left", "topleft", "top", "topright", > "right", or "center". > > This should be downloadable tomorrow from the CRAN mirrors.
Sweet, thanks. I'm probably not the only one who wrote simple little wrappers for that at one point. Good to have a more general solution in base. Dirk -- If your hair is standing up, then you are in extreme danger. -- http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfp/cockpit-phys/fp1ex3.htm ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel