[R] Legend - revisited

[Petr Pikal]

Hallo Monica

I tried to do the same task recently and the only solution I was 
able to come with was to hack legend() function. You can find it 
in graphics library (R1.9.0).

I just added

cex.pt = cex,

in the definition

and 

cex=cex.pt, 

instead cex=cex,

into draw points part of the function.

Than I can when calling legend to leave default cex or to use 
different setting for legend text ("cex") and points ("cex.pt" ).

BTW cex is vectorised so cex=c(1,1,2,3) gives you different cex 
setting for 4 different legend items.

I copied the modified function into my library and now I wait if 
some other function starts to complain about my modifications :-).

HTH.
Cheers
Petr





On 27 Apr 2004 at 11:31, Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to put a legend to a graph of quintiles. The points for
> quintiles are colored differently and the points themselves have
> different sizes. I was able to match everything but the points sizes.
> If i am using cex parameter it changes both the points and the text
> dimensions .... 
> 
> I am not sore if i was clear, but what i want is different sizes for
> the points but same size for the text in the legend. Here it is the
> command i am using:
> 
> legend(438000, 367000, c("1st quintile", "2nd quintile", "3rd 
> quintile",  4th quintile ,  5th quintile"), pch = c(21,21,21,21,21),
> pt.bg = c( blue ,  green ,  yellow ,  brown ,  red ), cex=1.2)
> 
> Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Monica
> 
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Petr Pikal
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