[R] Barplot legend position

[John Kane]

--- Ingmar Visser <I.Visser at uva.nl> wrote:

> Thanks, this could work!
> However, the legend does not reproduce the
> color/shading used in the
> original 
> barplot, are those available somehow?
> Best, Ingmar

?legend

Try
x=matrix(1:10,2,5)
barplot(x,besid=T, col=c("red","blue"))
legend("topleft", c("left","right"),
fill=c("red","blue"))



> 
> 
> From: David Hajage <dhajage at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:11:21 +0200
> To: Ingmar Visser <I.Visser at uva.nl>
> Cc: <R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Subject: Re: [R] Barplot legend position
> 
> For example :
> 
> x=matrix(1:10,2,5)
> barplot(x,besid=T)
> legend("topleft", c("left","right"), density=
> c(0,1000))
> 
> 
> 2006/10/13, Ingmar Visser < I.Visser at uva.nl>:
> > Dear useRs,
> > 
> > I'm trying to create a barplot like so:
> > 
> > x=matrix(1:10,2,5)
> > barplot(x,leg=c("left","right"),besid=T)
> > 
> > The legend is placed in default position topright,
> however the data are
> > plotted there too. I tried controlling the legend
> position by adding
> > x="topleft" but this results in an error that x
> matches multiple formal
> > arguments.
> > 
> > Leaving out the legend and making a separate call
> to legend leaves out the
> > colors of bars ...
> > 
> > Please advice, Ingmar
> > 
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> -- 
> David
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