[R] Legend Truncated Using filled.contour

[David Winsemius]

On Oct 3, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Kirsten wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm working on a contour plot depicting asymptomatic prevalence at varying
> durations of infectiousness and force of infection.  I've been able to work
> everything out except for this one - my legend title keeps getting cut off. 
> Here's what I have:
> 
> filled.contour(x=seq(2,30,length.out=nrow(asym_matrix)),
> y=seq(1,2,length.out=ncol(asym_matrix)),


Error in nrow(asym_matrix) : object 'asym_matrix' not found
> 



> asym_matrix, 
> color = function(x)rev(heat.colors(x)),
> plot.title = title(main="Asymptomatic Prevalence in 0-4 Year Olds with\n
> Increasing Duration of Infectiousness",
> xlab = "Duration of Infectiousness",
> ylab = "Relative Force of Infection"),
> key.title = title(main = "Asymptomatic\n Prevalence"))
> 
> My first thought was to make the legend title text smaller using cex = 0.75
> (or similar), but it doesn't change the text size at all.  In fact, none of
> the modifiers that I've tried to add to the key.title line (size, color,
> font, etc) seems to be making a bit of difference.
> 
> key.title = title(main = "Asymptomatic\n Prevalence", cex = "0.75")
> 
> I assume there's an override earlier in the code, but I have no idea what it
> is.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Kirsten
> 
> 
> 
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David Winsemius, MD
Alameda, CA, USA