[Rd] Wishlist: simple legend options (PR#7400)

[Gregor GORJANC]

Hello Uwe.

Thanks for the response. I was searching in bug repository for something 
else and found that wish. Hoewever I tried to do a search for that, so I 
would not bother R-devel team. I was not successfull in finding any 
meaningfull comments on legend in

http://developer.r-project.org/R.svnlog.2005

You are right with NEWS file in R-devel. It really documents this 
improvement. Very nice. You guys really do an excellent job. I did not 
looked in NEWS file since it is kind of "hidden" i.e. one needs to download 
the R-devel and look in that file. But I confes, it is my blame, not of 
R-devel folk. However I think, that it would be nice that link to NEWS file 
would be accessible directly from R websites. I wrote few lines of HTML 
code that could be added to CRAN webpages for this. I hope r-team or CRAN 
maintainers will find this usefull.

Look files:

* A replacement for http://cran.at.r-project.org/sources.html. I added link 
to last R-devel and R-patched archives and to corresponding NEWS files. 
However there are now no NEWS files at 
ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R. I suggest that NEWS files for last 
R-devel and R-patched should be there, but since there are two, they could 
be named NEWS-devel and NEWS-patched or something alike. Maybe one could 
even divide directories ro R-devel and R-pacthed.

File is available at:
http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/sources.html

* A replacement for http://cran.at.r-project.org/banner.shtml. I added the 
same as above.

File is available at:
http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/banner.shtml

Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Gorjanc Gregor wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>>
>> I was loooking in R-bugs and found under wishlist-fullfilled wish for 
>> "smart" placement of a legend. This has already been done in package
>> gplots in function smartlegend.
>>
>> One question. This "bug-report" is under wishlist-fullfilled. Is it 
>> really
>> fullfilled? 
> 
> 
> Yes, in the current developer release (AKA R-devel, to be R-2.1.0), as 
> you can easily see in the correpsonding NEWS file and the svn logs.
> 
> Why do you follow up into the bug repository?
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> Mail from Elizabeth
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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.
>> Also it would be nice to be able to put a optional title inside your 
>> legend.
>> Currently I just make my title the first value in my legend vector, 
>> and then fix
>> the other options so no symbols plot next to it. But this isn't always 
>> a pretty
>> result and can be a pain if your symbols are complicated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Elizabeth
>> Response to Elizabeth by Duncan Murdoch
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> -- 
>> Lep pozdrav / With regards,
>>     Gregor GORJANC
>>
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> 
> 

-- 
Lep pozdrav / With regards,
     Gregor GORJANC

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University of Ljubljana
Biotechnical Faculty       URI: http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si
Zootechnical Department    mail: gregor.gorjanc <at> bfro.uni-lj.si
Groblje 3                  tel: +386 (0)1 72 17 861
SI-1230 Domzale            fax: +386 (0)1 72 17 888
Slovenia