[R] position of a legend-object

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Ravi Varadhan wrote:
> You can use locator(1) as an argument in the "legend" function to manually
> position the legend, i.e. after your plot is plotted, the system will wait
> for you to indicate (by clicking the mouse) where the legend should be
> placed.
> 
> legend(locator(1), ...)
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Ravi.
> 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-
>>bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Carsten Steinhoff
>>Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 1:06 PM
>>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>Subject: [R] position of a legend-object
>>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I've written a function that plots a few functions in a diagram.
>>The xlim and or ylim is not always the same, and set automatically by R.
>>A legend is part of this object.
>>Now the problem is: where to put the legend? Me would help a function that
>>returns the limits and scaling of the axis.
>>
>>Thanks for your help.
>>
>>Carsten

There are functions in the Hmisc package to help too (especially 
labcurve and xYplot).  You can have a function put a legend in the most 
empty portion of a graph automatically with these functions.
-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University