Change the text size of the title in a legend of a R plot.
Hi Victor,
looking at the code for legend, it looks like the same 'cex' value is
used for the text in the legend as the title.
Here is a trick though: draw the legend twice, with different cex
values, and omitting title or text:
plot(1)
legend("topright",c("a","b"),title=" ")
legend("topright",c(" "," "),title="Legend",cex=0.6, bty='n', title.adj=0.15)
A bit of a hack but it works....
If you want the title larger, it will probably not fit the box, which
you can omit by setting bty='n' (as in the second line).
good luck,
Remko
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Steven McKinney <smckinney at bccrc.ca> wrote:
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Sent: April-28-11 8:22 PM
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Subject: [R] Change the text size of the title in a legend of a R plot.
Hello,
Is it possible to change the text size of the title in a legend of a R plot?
I tried to directly change the title.cex argument but it seems not to work.
Trying :
Horizo <- c(1,2,6,10,20)
legtext <- paste(Horizo,sep="")
legend("topleft", legend=legtext,col=col,text.col=col,lwd=lwd,
lty=lty,cex=1.1,ncol=3,title = "Horizons",title.col ="black",title.cex=1.4)
I haven't found any cex argument that works for just the legend title, but you
can get some modification of the title with the expression argument:
legend("topleft", legend=legtext,col=col,text.col=col,lwd=lwd, lty=lty,cex=1.1,ncol=3,
title = expression(bold("Horizons")),title.col="black")
Does that help?
Otherwise, you can of course figure out which functions do the legend plotting,
copy and modify those to get a title cex in place.
Steve McKinney
gives the following error (sorry in french):
Erreur dans legend("topleft", legend = legtext, col = col, text.col =
col, ?:
? ?argument(s) inutilis?(s) (title.cex = 1.4)
saying title.cex argument as been ignored.
Thank you for helping.
Victor
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