Hi I have a complicated plot which has a potentially large legend. What I want to do is actually create the legend in a new window. Has anyone done this before? I'd like to be able to create a window with just the legend in it, and have it so the window is just the right size etc. I'm sure someone must have done this already? If not, any tips would be welcome. Thanks Mick
par(xpd=NA) will allow you to click outside your figure and create the legend there: Short example: par(mfrow=c(1,2),xpd=NA) plot(1:5) legend(locator(1),pch=1,legend="TEST") Good luck, Henrik michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:> Hi > > I have a complicated plot which has a potentially large legend. What I > want to do is actually create the legend in a new window. Has anyone > done this before? I'd like to be able to create a window with just the > legend in it, and have it so the window is just the right size etc. I'm > sure someone must have done this already? If not, any tips would be > welcome. > > Thanks > Mick > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >-- --------------------------------------------- Henrik Andersson Netherlands Institute of Ecology - Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology P.O. Box 140 4400 AC Yerseke Phone: +31 113 577473 h.andersson at nioo.knaw.nl http://www.nioo.knaw.nl/ppages/handersson
Following on from this, what I want is to create a new window and fill up the entire window with my legend. I have tried: plot.new() par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) legend() But that still puts legend wherever I specify x and y. So after I have set mar to c(0,0,0,0), how do I tell R to make the legend fill the entire window, starting at the top-left? Thanks Mick -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of michael watson (IAH-C) Sent: 09 December 2004 11:52 To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Create a plot legend in a new window Hi I have a complicated plot which has a potentially large legend. What I want to do is actually create the legend in a new window. Has anyone done this before? I'd like to be able to create a window with just the legend in it, and have it so the window is just the right size etc. I'm sure someone must have done this already? If not, any tips would be welcome. Thanks Mick ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Hi Michael
If on windows (what you did not tell us) use
1. plot your graph
2. windows() # to create new grapfic template
3. click on it to make it active
4. plot(1,1,type="n")
5. place your legend somewhere on the second plot e.g. by
legend(locator(1), ........)
BTW
help.search("window") reveals that there is ts function window,
but also graphic function "windows". Maybe on the "window"
help
page could be mentioned link to this quite similar (by name)
graphic function, even if it is completely unrelated.
Cheers
Petr
On 9 Dec 2004 at 11:52, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a complicated plot which has a potentially large legend. What
> I want to do is actually create the legend in a new window. Has
> anyone done this before? I'd like to be able to create a window with
> just the legend in it, and have it so the window is just the right
> size etc. I'm sure someone must have done this already? If not, any
> tips would be welcome.
>
> Thanks
> Mick
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide!
> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
Petr Pikal
petr.pikal at precheza.cz
Just for the records (and if anyone ever wants to find the "solution"), I solved my own problem (well sort of) through imaginative use of the barplot command:>barplot(rep(1,4),horiz=TRUE,names.arg=rev(c("this","is","my","legend")), col=rev(rainbow(4)), axes=FALSE,las=2) Produces a very nice, re-sizeable legend in a new window :-D Mick -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of michael watson (IAH-C) Sent: 09 December 2004 13:57 To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: RE: [R] Create a plot legend in a new window Following on from this, what I want is to create a new window and fill up the entire window with my legend. I have tried: plot.new() par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) legend() But that still puts legend wherever I specify x and y. So after I have set mar to c(0,0,0,0), how do I tell R to make the legend fill the entire window, starting at the top-left? Thanks Mick -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of michael watson (IAH-C) Sent: 09 December 2004 11:52 To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] Create a plot legend in a new window Hi I have a complicated plot which has a potentially large legend. What I want to do is actually create the legend in a new window. Has anyone done this before? I'd like to be able to create a window with just the legend in it, and have it so the window is just the right size etc. I'm sure someone must have done this already? If not, any tips would be welcome. Thanks Mick ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html