R help - Nov 2007 - How to align the text in the legend

Hello,

 

I tried to align lines of text in the legend of a plot.  It always
defaults to the central alignment.  How can I adjust it to be left
alignment?

Here is the code fragment written in python using Rpy module:

 

  text = 'Quantiles     #Loci\n'

  text += '%s         %6d\n' % (' 100',totalloci)

  text += '%s         %6d\n' % ('  95',per95cntloci)

  text += '%s         %6d\n' % ('  50',per50cntloci)

  r.legend(20,30,text,cex=0.6,bty='n')

 

 

Thanks

Zhaoming


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Well, did you look at xjust, yjust options of legend?
And maybe it would be worth to check adj graphic parameter see ?par

Petr

r-help-bounces at r-project.org napsal dne 29.11.2007 18:14:55:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> I tried to align lines of text in the legend of a plot.  It always
> defaults to the central alignment.  How can I adjust it to be left
> alignment?
> 
> Here is the code fragment written in python using Rpy module:
> 
> 
> 
>   text = 'Quantiles     #Loci\n'
> 
>   text += '%s         %6d\n' % (' 100',totalloci)
> 
>   text += '%s         %6d\n' % ('  95',per95cntloci)
> 
>   text += '%s         %6d\n' % ('  50',per50cntloci)
> 
>   r.legend(20,30,text,cex=0.6,bty='n')
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Zhaoming
> 
> 
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> 
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Have you tried a non-proportional font like Courier?

On Nov 29, 2007 12:14 PM, Wang, Zhaoming (NIH/NCI) [C]
<wangzha at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I tried to align lines of text in the legend of a plot.  It always
> defaults to the central alignment.  How can I adjust it to be left
> alignment?
>
> Here is the code fragment written in python using Rpy module:
>
>
>
>  text = 'Quantiles     #Loci\n'
>
>  text += '%s         %6d\n' % (' 100',totalloci)
>
>  text += '%s         %6d\n' % ('  95',per95cntloci)
>
>  text += '%s         %6d\n' % ('  50',per50cntloci)
>
>  r.legend(20,30,text,cex=0.6,bty='n')
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Zhaoming
>
>
>        [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>


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