[R] mathematical expression in legend

Arne Mueller mueller at cancer.org.uk
Wed Mar 13 15:25:50 CET 2002



On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Arne Mueller wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Paul Murrell wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm trying to put a mathematical expression into a legend, but R
> > > > complains about a syntax error. Basically i'd like to do this:
> > > >
> > > > legend.text = c(expression(x < 10), expression(x >= 10))
> > >
> > >
> > > The following works for me on 1.4.0 (yukky alignment which should be fixed
> > > in 1.4.1) ...
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > yes, thanks, the stuff below does what I want. However, the legend text is
> > now shifted to the top relative to the symbols of the legend. This
> > probably what you mean with 'yukky' alignment? I'm running 1.4.1 :-(
> 
> Paul himself fixed the bug on Feb 12 for R-devel (to be 1.5.0 on April
> 29, as far as I know).
> R-1.4.1 was released on Jan 30.
> 
> As a workaround specify the adjustment manually:
>  legend(..., adj=c(0, 0.5))

Hi,

the 'adj' fixes the problem for me. Thanks a lot. from 1.4.1. directly to
1.5.0 is a large step in the release number. Are there fundamental
changes/enhancements? Is there a list of new features etc.  on the web?
 
	thanks,

	Arne


> Uwe Ligges
> 

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