[R] How to create a legend without plot, and to use scientific notation for axes label ?

[Uwe Ligges]

Ng Stanley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a 3 by 2 plots per page, and would like to place a legend on the last
> region. How to do that ?


Create an empty plot, e.g.:

plot(1, type="n", axes=FALSE, xlab="", ylab="")
legend(1, 1, legend = c("Hello", "World"), col=1:2,
        lwd=2, cex=3, xjust=0.5, yjust=0.5)

Uwe Ligges



> Also, is there any way to specify scientific notation for axes label ?
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