

thank you for your suggestion!  

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Regards,
Mahalakshmi
Graduate Student
#20, Department of Geography
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824 Quoting Ben Madin <lists@remoteinformation.com.au>:

> Maha,
>
> On 08/11/2010, at 5:20 PM, govindas@msu.edu wrote:
>> Thanks for the info. I got my legend inside the plot, but if i want 
>> to mention the location of the legend in terms of the coordinates, 
>> then how do I measure the coordinates? rather, how do i mention it 
>> for the legend's location (because both "X" and "Y" axes seldom have 
>> the same units - so how to figure this out?)
>>
> You need to convert the axis units to the plot coordinate units - 
> which is happening in the background anyway for your plot. I'm not 
> quite sure how to explain this better past look again critically at 
> the line below
>> > plot(0.1,0.1, xlim=c(as.numeric(as.Date('1980-01-01')), 
>> as.numeric(as.Date('2010-01-01'))), ylim = c(18,30), ylab='SST (deg 
>> C)', xlab='Year')
>>
> as I suspect what you want to find the x value in something like 
> as.numeric(min(date values)) - the y value should be a little easier 
> to work out in this case. Again, I can only suggest use the locator() 
> function to help get a feeling for what the conversions have been if 
> you are totally lost.
>
> As a final thought, you will probably find a lot more help on such a 
> topic as generic plotting layout on the R-help list, not the 
> geostatistics special interest group. Or try the Murrell book "R 
> Graphics"
>
> cheers
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
>> >
>> > you might find the locator() function helpful here.
>> >
>> > cheers
>> >
>> > Ben
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 06/11/2010, at 9:58 AM, govindas@msu.edu wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I have a problem with the appearance of legend in my plots. If I
>> >> specify the legend positions in characters like "topright"..etc, it
>> >> appears, if i specify it in terms of coordinates like "-1, 1" ..
>> >> etc, it does not appear. Can anyone help me with this?
>> >>
>> >> script -
>> >> x.date <- as.Date(paste(year, month, day, sep="-"))
>> >> ts1.n.e3 <- ts(data.nemr.e3[,3])
>> >> z1.n.e3 <- zoo(ts1.n.e3, x.date)
>> >> plot(z1.n.e3, ylim = c(min(data.nemr.e3[,3]),
>> >> max(data.nemr.e3[,5])), col="orange",
>> >> main = "Monthly variations of SST in El-Nino3", xlab = "Year",
>> >> ylab="SST (deg C)")
>> >> lines(z2.n.e3, lty = 2, col="red2")
>> >> lines(z3.n.e3, lty = 3, col="maroon3", lwd=1)
>> >> legend(-0.1, -0.1, legend=c("min", "mean", "max"), lty=c(1,2,3),
>> >> col=c("orange", "red2", "maroon3"))
>> >>
>> >> attached is my plot! suggestions are welcome! thanks in advance!
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Maha!<SST_ElN3.jpeg>_______________________________________________
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>> >
>> >
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