[R] legend with filled boxes AND lines

[florian.koller at gfk.com]

Dear all,

Is there a straightforward way to create a legend box that has both filled
boxes and lines?
So far I have built around this problem by creating two legends (with bty =
"n") and manually drawing a box around both (but this is cumbersome,
because I have to check upon the y coordinates of the legends every time).

If I do something like > legend( ...,c("X1","X2", "mean"), fill = c("red",
"blue", 0), lty = (0,0,2)) < , I cannot get rid of the unfilled box or
change the color of the fill box border (from its default color "black"),
and I end up with two filled boxes and an empty, black-lined box plus the
line as a legend for the third argument "mean". This trick therefore only
works if I define "black" as the bg color for the complete legend box
(because it masks the empty  box from the fill argument). So, if there is a
command to modify the color of the fill box border line (not the legend box
border line), this would help me, too (still not ideal, though...).

Thanks,
Florian



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