Wishlist: simple legend options (PR#7400)

Gregor GORJANC wrote:

Hello Uwe.

Thanks for the response. I was searching in bug repository for 
something else and found that wish. Hoewever I tried to do a search 
for that, so I would not bother R-devel team. I was not successfull in 
finding any meaningfull comments on legend in

http://developer.r-project.org/R.svnlog.2005

Right, because it was done last year:
http://developer.r-project.org/R.svnlog.2004
has (among other legend related entries):

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r32089 | murdoch | 2004-12-02 17:17:43 -0500 (Thu, 02 Dec 2004) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   M /trunk/NEWS
   M /trunk/src/library/graphics/R/legend.R
   M /trunk/src/library/graphics/man/legend.Rd

legend() enhancements from PR#7400

You are right with NEWS file in R-devel. It really documents this 
improvement. Very nice. You guys really do an excellent job. I did not 
looked in NEWS file since it is kind of "hidden" i.e. one needs to 
download the R-devel and look in that file. But I confes, it is my 
blame, not of R-devel folk. However I think, that it would be nice 
that link to NEWS file would be accessible directly from R websites. I 
wrote few lines of HTML code that could be added to CRAN webpages for 
this. I hope r-team or CRAN maintainers will find this usefull.

The file is much more easily available via SVN:

https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/NEWS


Uwe Ligges

Look files:

* A replacement for http://cran.at.r-project.org/sources.html. I added 
link to last R-devel and R-patched archives and to corresponding NEWS 
files. However there are now no NEWS files at 
ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R. I suggest that NEWS files for 
last R-devel and R-patched should be there, but since there are two, 
they could be named NEWS-devel and NEWS-patched or something alike. 
Maybe one could even divide directories ro R-devel and R-pacthed.

File is available at:
http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/sources.html

* A replacement for http://cran.at.r-project.org/banner.shtml. I added 
the same as above.

File is available at:
http://www.bfro.uni-lj.si/MR/ggorjan/banner.shtml

Uwe Ligges wrote:

Gorjanc Gregor wrote:

Hello!

I was loooking in R-bugs and found under wishlist-fullfilled wish 
for "smart" placement of a legend. This has already been done in 
package
gplots in function smartlegend.

One question. This "bug-report" is under wishlist-fullfilled. Is it 
really
fullfilled? 

Yes, in the current developer release (AKA R-devel, to be R-2.1.0), 
as you can easily see in the correpsonding NEWS file and the svn logs.

Why do you follow up into the bug repository?

Uwe Ligges

Mail from Elizabeth
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It would be nice if legend had the option of some default locations 
you could
choose instead of entering specific coordinates, like "topleft",
"topright","topcenter", etc. based on par("usr") coordinates. I know 
I've wanted
it so often I've made my own simple non-robust wrap-around, so I 
don't have to
remember or parse the xjust and yjust options necessary to make it 
work. Of
course there should be the option of entering in your own coordinates.
Also it would be nice to be able to put a optional title inside your 
legend.
Currently I just make my title the first value in my legend vector, 
and then fix
the other options so no symbols plot next to it. But this isn't 
always a pretty
result and can be a pain if your symbols are complicated.

Thanks,
Elizabeth
Response to Elizabeth by Duncan Murdoch
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