[R] xyplot Legend Title and Position

[Justin McBride]

Dennis,

Thanks for your suggestion, but that is not exactly what I was after.
I was trying to get the legend in the margin on the top right of the
page and not in the plot frame.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
Justin

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Dennis Murphy <djmuser at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> Part of the problem is that you have a point in the upper right corner
> of your plot, so one way around it is to expand the y-range. Try this:
>
> xyplot(Yield ~ Date,
>      groups=Machine, ylim = c(7, 22),
>      auto.key=list(title="Machine", corner = c(0.95, 1), cex=1.0),
>       par.settings = list(superpose.symbol=list(pch = 0:18, cex=1)),
>      )
>
> HTH,
> Dennis
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Justin McBride <crazyhawk48 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear R Community,
>>
>> I'm using xyplot in Lattice with a legend and a title on the legend.
>> The title on legend is being cut off, as can be seen by running the
>> code below.   The legend is on the right, but I would like to get to
>> the top right of the graphics window.  Is there a way to get the
>> legend title to display correctly and move the whole legend up the the
>> top right?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Justin
>>
>> ### R code
>>
>> library(lattice)
>> Yield=c(16, 17, 11, 8, 16, 18)
>> Date = c(1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
>> Machine = c(1, 3, 2, 2, 3, 1)
>>
>>
>> xyplot(Yield ~ Date,
>>       groups=Machine,
>>       auto.key=list(title="Machine", space = "right", cex=1.0),
>>        par.settings = list(superpose.symbol=list(pch = 0:18, cex=1)),
>>       )
>>
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