[R] Unwanted boxes in legend

[Steve Murray]

Thanks Peter,

I'm using version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20). This version should be recent enough to pick up fundamentals such as this, right? I guess the obvious thing to do is update and try again...

Cheers,

Steve

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> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:55:20 -0600
> From: ehlers at ucalgary.ca
> To: tgstewart at gmail.com
> CC: smurray444 at hotmail.com; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Unwanted boxes in legend
>
> 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 Murraywrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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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>
> --
> Peter Ehlers
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