Dear all,
I'm attempting to insert a legend into a line graph. I've sorted out the positioning, but I'm unable to display the sample line and associated colour to go within the legend box. Instead, under the variable names, the numbers 1, 2, 2, 3 are displayed in a column (with '2' repeated twice). This is the code I'm using:
legend(80,1150, c("Simulation", "Observation", lty=1:2, col=2:3)
How do I go about displaying a red solid line next to 'Simulation' and a green dashed line next to 'Observation' (and if necessary, remove the numbers that are currently displayed)?
Many thanks for any help offered,
Steve
Producing a legend successfullly
4 messages · Steve Murray, Sarah Goslee, Jorge Ivan Velez +1 more
This works for me:
plot(1:10, 1:10)
legend("topleft", c("Simulation", "Observation"), lty=1:2, col=2:3)
Try that; if it does work, then we need more information about exactly what you're doing, because there's a problem not contained in just that single line of code (which has a problem of its own!). Sarah
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Steve Murray <smurray444 at hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
I'm attempting to insert a legend into a line graph. I've sorted out the positioning, but I'm unable to display the sample line and associated colour to go within the legend box. Instead, under the variable names, the numbers 1, 2, 2, 3 are displayed in a column (with '2' repeated twice). This is the code I'm using:
legend(80,1150, c("Simulation", "Observation", lty=1:2, col=2:3)
How do I go about displaying a red solid line next to 'Simulation' and a green dashed line next to 'Observation' (and if necessary, remove the numbers that are currently displayed)?
Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org
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your code is missing a closing bracket for the text labels,
legend(1,4, c("Simulation", "Observation"), lty=1:2, col=2:3)
baptiste
On 4 May 2009, at 20:46, Steve Murray wrote:
Dear all,
I'm attempting to insert a legend into a line graph. I've sorted out
the positioning, but I'm unable to display the sample line and
associated colour to go within the legend box. Instead, under the
variable names, the numbers 1, 2, 2, 3 are displayed in a column
(with '2' repeated twice). This is the code I'm using:
legend(80,1150, c("Simulation", "Observation", lty=1:2, col=2:3)
How do I go about displaying a red solid line next to 'Simulation'
and a green dashed line next to 'Observation' (and if necessary,
remove the numbers that are currently displayed)?
Many thanks for any help offered,
Steve
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