[R] How to make legend with line+ character

[Jim Lemon]

Mario Valle wrote:
 > Dear all,
 > I have a multiline plot with each line labeled with a different letter.
 > But I'm not able to make the legend display the same kind of pattern 
'-a-',
 > instead the letter is overwritten by the line. A simpler legend with only
 > the letter is not very visible and the pt.bg does nothing with letters.
 > Any idea?
 >
 > plot(1:10,10:1,lty=1,type='b', lwd=2,pch='a')
 > legend("left", legend=c("ds1","ds2"), bty='n', col=1:2,
 > lty=2,lwd=4,pch=letters)
 >
Hi Mario,
This is probably too late and superfluous, but your question made me 
wonder if the legendg function would to this:

legendg(0.2,0.25,c("letter","number"),
  pch=list(c("-","A","-"),c("-","1","-")),
  col=list(rep(2,3),rep(3,3)))

It does.

Jim