[R] Unwanted boxes in legend

[Peter Ehlers]

On 2010-04-19 8:11, Thomas Stewart wrote:
> Try border=c(0,0,1,0).
> -tgs

If the 'border' argument is not recognized, then this won't work.

Steve:
What version of R are you using? I have no problems with the
suggestions I gave you in R 2.10.1 or R 2.11.0 alpha.

  -Peter Ehlers

>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Steve Murray<smurray444 at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Thanks for the response, however I'm getting the following error message
>> when I execute the legend command using the 'border' argument:
>>
>> Error in legend(10, par("usr")[4], c("A", "B",  :
>>    unused argument(s) (border = FALSE)
>>
>>
>> Is anyone aware of any alternative means of switching off boxes around all
>> but one of the elements in a legend?
>>
>> Many thanks for any input,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:13:40 -0600
>>> From: ehlers at ucalgary.ca
>>> To: smurray444 at hotmail.com
>>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: Re: [R] Unwanted boxes in legend
>>>
>>> On 2010-04-15 11:10, Steve Murray wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> I am using the following code to generate a legend in my plot
>> (consisting of both bars and points), but end up with boxes around my
>> points:
>>>>
>>>> legend(10, par("usr")[4], c("A", "B", "C", "D"), fill=c(NA,NA, "grey28",
>> NA), pch=c(16,4,NA,18), col=c("red","blue","grey28","yellow"), lty=FALSE,
>> bty="n", horiz=FALSE)
>>>>
>>>> I want a box around the third element of the legend (to represent the
>> bar 'fill' colour), but not for the others, where points are shown instead.
>>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong above and how do I correct it?
>>>
>>> Add the 'border' argument:
>>>
>>> either
>>>
>>> border = FALSE # in which case no box is drawn for any element
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> border = c(NA, NA, "black", NA)
>>>
>>> -Peter Ehlers
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Ehlers
>>> University of Calgary
>>
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>

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