Message-ID: <3E9D5E46.5020901@pdf.com>
Date: 2003-04-16T13:44:38Z
From: Spencer Graves
Subject: troubles with displaying legend on the plot
Another trick (which I think I got from Modern Applied Statistics with
S) is to compute xlim manually and add 20% or 50% on the right or left
to create the blank space you want for the legend.
hth
spencer graves
Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:26:11PM +0400, Wladimir Eremeev wrote:
>
>>Is is possible to place the legend outside a plot in any other way
>>except using lattice package?
>
>
> Sort of -- I once did that using layout(). In essence you arrange two (or
> more) plots on a page. One of those plots remains 'empty' and only contains
> a legend, which gives the desired of having a plot with a separate legend.
>
>
>>BTW, maybe it would be useful to place this question in FAQ?
>>I've searched the mail archive. The question about placing the legend
>>outside a plot already have arose...
>
>
> This was discussed before. Simply trying one google query as in
> http://www.google.com/search?q=legend+outside+r-help
> or
> http://www.google.com/search?q=legend+outside+site:r-project.org
> shows several results, including one with the simpler answer
> par(xpd=T)
>
> Hope this helps, Dirk
>