Message-ID: <16444.43066.981715.541826@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
Date: 2004-02-25T14:51:09Z
From: Martin Maechler
Subject: legend()s text color
In-Reply-To: <403B927A.3000909@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
{moved from R-help to R-devel}
>>>>> "UweL" == Uwe Ligges <ligges@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
>>>>> on Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:05:46 +0100 writes:
UweL> Sebastien Durand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way to change the color of the text inside a legend, let say
>> I would like to use a black background in my legend, how can I get the
>> text to show up, it is black!!!
>> So for example how could I change it to white...?
>>
>> Sebastien
UweL> By setting par(fg = "white"):
UweL> plot(1:10)
UweL> par(fg="white")
UweL> legend(2,2, col="white", legend="A", bg="black")
or par(col = "white"),
as Marc has suggested.
legend()'s source code makes it very straightforward to add an
argument 'text.col' for this purpose, and I have already done so
in my development version.
The question is really if the default should be
text.col = par("col")
or text.col = par("fg")
I'd currently tend for par("col") , but the tendency is weak.
Martin