Hello, everybody: I recently encountered an example with in which the graph was placed in a way that did not leave room for a legend. Maybe you would describe it as "legend too big", I'm not sure. I found myself wishing I could force in some space after the title.
Here's working example where I'd like to make room for a legend. x <- rnorm(100) hist(x, freq=F, main="Different Meanings of Normality") lines(density(x)) xseq1 <- seq( min(x), max(x), length.out=100) m1 <- mean(x) sd1 <- sd(x) obsNormal <- dnorm(xseq1, mean=m1, sd=sd1) lines( xseq1, obsNormal, lty=2, col="red") truNormal <- dnorm(xseq1) lines(xseq1, truNormal, lty=3, col="green") legend(0,0.4, legend=c("observed density", "normal with observed mean & sd", "normal with 'true' mean and sd"), lty=c(1,2,3), col=c("black", "red", "green")) I tried fiddling around with par to change the margins, but it has the bad effect of resizing the image and creating a blank space into which I'm not allowed to write the legend. Know what I mean? I try par( mar=c(1,1,3,1)) or par(mai=c(1,1,4,1)) before the hist and it makes space, but useless space. I've been considering something desperate, such as layout(). Isn't there a simpler way? -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.