[Rd] legend() in a multiple figure environment

[Simone Giannerini]

Dear Mathieu,

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Mathieu Ribatet
<mathieu.ribatet at epfl.ch> wrote:
> Dear Simone,
>
> Did mean that the legend (text and/or box) overlap with the Normal density?

no, I mean that the two legend() commands, which are identical in all
but the y-coordinates, produce different results, namely boxes with
different widths.

Ciao

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
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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/