[Rd] legend lwd - feature request (PR#7023)

[Lfo at psykiatri.aaa.dk]

(R1.9.1 Windows)

In legend( ) lwd have no effect on points - contrary to the behaviour
in e.g. plot( ) and points( ). It would be nice to have an option pt.lwd
affecting the line width of legend points (like pt.cex changes the
magnification).


An example (note the difference in line width between points in the
plot and the legend):
x <- 1:10 ; y <- rnorm(10,10,5) ; y2 <- rnorm(10,8,4)
plot(x,y,bty="l",lwd=3,type="o",col=2,ylim=c(min(y,y2),max(y,y2)),cex=1.5)
points(x,y2,lwd=3,lty=8,col=4,type="o",pch=2,cex=1.5)
legend(10,max(y,y2),legend=c("Method 1","Method
2"),col=c(2,4),lty=c(1,8),pch=c(1,2),
    xjust=1,yjust=1,pt.cex=1.5,lwd=3)

Workaround (thanks to Peter Dalgaard):
x <- 1:10 ; y <- rnorm(10,10,5) ; y2 <- rnorm(10,8,4)
plot(x,y,bty="l",lwd=3,type="o",col=2,ylim=c(min(y,y2),max(y,y2)),cex=1.5)
points(x,y2,lwd=3,lty=8,col=4,type="o",pch=2,cex=1.5)
legend(10,max(y,y2),legend=c("Method 1","Method
2"),col=c(0,0),lty=c(1,8),pch=c(1,2),
    xjust=1,yjust=1,pt.cex=1.5,lwd=0,text.col=0)
pp <- par(lwd=3)
legend(10,max(y,y2),legend=c("Method 1","Method 2"),
    col=c(2,4),lty=c(1,8),pch=c(1,2), 
    xjust=1,yjust=1,pt.cex=1.5,lwd=3,bty="n")
par(pp)


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