[R] Legend outside the plot? xpd?

[Jim Holtman]

you can use layout to setup 4 plot areas; 3 for the graphs and then along one on the right for the legend

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On Feb 6, 2011, at 2:41, Matt Cooper <mattcstats at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> BG: Will try be brief. I'd like 3 graphs on a page (below each other
> mfrow=c(3,1)), saved to pdf. The three plot data on the same subject so I'm
> having one legend, to the right of the center graph. I'm using
> mar=c(5,15,4,15) to bring the sides in so that the graphs are square and not
> stretched wide. To have the graph to the side I'm thinking xpd=T. Each graph
> has a number of points and lines overlaid, so plot
> ();lines(),lines(),lines() etc.
> 
> The data is somewhat of a subset of a larger set, so I'm limiting what is
> being displayed. The lines plot trends of the wider data.
> 
> P: With xpd=T, the lines are going right out of the graph boxes to the outer
> limit of the plot boundaries, as would be the intended behaviour of xpd.
> Goes without saying that this is undesirable.
> 
> Q: Is there a better way to achieve what I want? At this stage I have xpd=T
> in the par(), and xpd=F in the plot() commands and all the line commands,
> just so I can get the legend to actually print...
> 
> Aside: Given the way I've done this, the lines() are all clipped RIGHT at
> the limit of the plot box. So given the plot is called first these lines
> leave little coloured dashes on the black of the plot box. To sort this I've
> called box() at the end. This all seems very redundant?
> 
> Thanks
> Matt
> 
> 
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