R help - Aug 2011 - Reduce the space under legend title

I would like to know if there is a way to reduce the space between the
legend title and the first line of the legend, without reducing all
the vertical space using y.intersp. Because of lack of space, I would
like to differentiate my title by bolding it, and reduce the vertical
space under the title to the space typically used between categories
in a legend.

plot(c(1.1, 2.3, 4.6),?c(2.0, 1.6, 3.2),?pch=c(1,2,3))
legend(x="bottomright", legend=c("Category 1",
"Category 2", "Category
3"), title=expression(bold("Fairly long title")), pch=c(1,2,3),
bty="o")

~Amelia McNamara
Statistics PhD student, UCLA

On 12.08.2011 01:28, Amelia McNamara wrote:
> I would like to know if there is a way to reduce the space between the
> legend title and the first line of the legend, without reducing all
> the vertical space using y.intersp. Because of lack of space, I would
> like to differentiate my title by bolding it, and reduce the vertical
> space under the title to the space typically used between categories
> in a legend.
>
> plot(c(1.1, 2.3, 4.6), c(2.0, 1.6, 3.2), pch=c(1,2,3))
> legend(x="bottomright", legend=c("Category 1",
"Category 2", "Category
> 3"), title=expression(bold("Fairly long title")),
pch=c(1,2,3),
> bty="o")
That is hardcoded in the legend() function. Hence a more or less dirty 
hack or maybe better adapting the legend function for your needs is the 
way to go.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



>
> ~Amelia McNamara
> Statistics PhD student, UCLA
>
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