R help - Jun 2012 - changing font to italic for one entry in legend()

Hello,

I need to change the font for one of the items (C. elegans) in my
legend to italic.  Can someone suggest how to accomplish this?

legend('bottomright', bty='n', c('C. elegans range',
'Study area'),
cex=0.8, fill=c('light gray', 'white'),
border=c('black','black'))

I tried using lab.font=c(1,3) but R ignored and did not write the legend at all.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks.
V

Thanks Paul.  That worked beautifully.

V



On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Paul Murrell <p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz>
wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> On 8/06/2012 12:27 p.m., Vikram Chhatre wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to change the font for one of the items (C. elegans) in my
>> legend to italic. ?Can someone suggest how to accomplish this?
>>
>> legend('bottomright', bty='n', c('C. elegans
range', 'Study area'),
>> cex=0.8, fill=c('light gray', 'white'),
border=c('black','black'))
>>
>> I tried using lab.font=c(1,3) but R ignored and did not write the
legend
>> at all.
>
>
> The help page suggests that text.font=c(3, 1) should work.
>
> If you just want the "C. elegans" to be italic, try something
like ...
>
>
> legend('bottomright', bty='n',
> ? ? ? expression(italic('C. elegans')*' range', 'Study
area'),
>
> ? ? ? cex=0.8, fill=c('light gray', 'white'),
> ? ? ? border=c('black','black'))
>
> Paul
>
>> Any advice would be great.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> V
>>
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HI,

Have you tried italic()?
legend(expression(italic("Study area")).

It is untested as I am not in front of my linux system.
A.K.


legend(expression(italic("Expression species")

----- Original Message -----
From: Vikram Chhatre <crypticlineage at gmail.com>
To: r-help at r-project.org
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Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 8:27 PM
Subject: [R] changing font to italic for one entry in legend()

Hello,

I need to change the font for one of the items (C. elegans) in my
legend to italic.? Can someone suggest how to accomplish this?

legend('bottomright', bty='n', c('C. elegans range',
'Study area'),
cex=0.8, fill=c('light gray', 'white'),
border=c('black','black'))

I tried using lab.font=c(1,3) but R ignored and did not write the legend at all.

Any advice would be great.

Thanks.
V

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