[R] legend for several graphics

hadley wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 21:21:22 CET 2008


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Georg Otto <georg.otto at tuebingen.mpg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I am trying to generate a figure of 9 plots that are contained in one
>  device by using
>
>  par(mfrow = c(3,3,))
>
>  I would like to have 1 common legend for all 9 plots somewhere outside
>  of the plotting area (as opposed to one legend inside each of the 9
>  plots, which the function legend() seems to generate by default).

If you provide more detail about your problem (what are the 9 plots?)
I'm sure we can suggest other solutions using lattice or ggplot that
will substantially simplify your code, as well as automatically
drawing the legend.

Hadley


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