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On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Jim Lemon wrote:
> On 01/20/2011 09:19 AM, claudia tebaldi wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>>
>> I'm plotting colored contour maps using filled.contour. My levels
>> are very unevenly spaced, with, say, high resolution in the small
>> numbers but ranges that can be an order of magnitude or two larger in
>> absolute value compared to where the action takes place. Aside from
>> transforming the data, is there a way to control the color spacing in
>> the key to the right of the map? Right now I get most of the key
>> length taken up by a couple of colors and the rest all squeezed into
>> thin slices, which also creates a problem with the fourth axis labels
>> getting drawn on top of one another.
>>
> Hi Claudia,
> You can roll your own color key with the color.legend function in plotrix.
> Just specify the colors you want in "rect.col" and the labels in "legend".
>
> Jim
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