[R] Making legend() look like my plot()

[Uwe Ligges]

Dan Bolser wrote:
> Is this an impossible task?
> 
> How about just problem 2 below, having one pch in one legend entry, but no
> pch in the second?

Please be at least a little bit patient! This is not a hotline! People 
are not working 24 hours a day just to answer your questions at once - 
they are answering questions on a voluntary basis!

answer 1) is not straightforward, but you might want to use one of 
fillable symbols mentioned in ?points, e.g. number 21

answer 2) pch = c(1, NA) should do the trick.

legend(....., pch=c(21,NA), lwd=c(1,3), lty=c(1,3), pt.bg="white", col=1:2)

Uwe Ligges


> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Dan Bolser wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am using code like the following to create as simple plot...
>>
>>
>>
>>plot(x,y,type='b')
>>lines(lowess(x,y),lwd=3,lty=3,col=2)
>>
>>I want to add a legend which shows lines looking exactly like those used
>>in my plot, i.e. a thin black line with gaps taken up by circles (the
>>default for type='b', and a thick dashed red line with no pch at all).
>>
>>I have two problems, 
>>
>>1) making the pch on the first like look like type = 'b' (gaps around pch)
>>2) surpressing a pch on for the second line
>>
>>
>>Any help with these two problems would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Any archive of plots and code to browse which could help me visually find
>>what I want and then copy the code?
>>
>>
>>An online user contributable database of 'graphics in R' would be
>>smashing.
>>
>>
>>How come some smart people dont just let me do something like
>>
>>legend(xpos,ypos,legend=add)
>>
>>to add a legend to the current plot for all the relevant points and lines
>>which have been added so far?
>>
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