ABCCoords {DescTools}

R Documentation

Coordinates for "bottomright", etc.

Description

Return the xy.coordinates for the literal positions "bottomright", etc. as used to place legends.

Usage

ABCCoords(x = "topleft", region = "figure", cex = NULL, linset = 0, ...)

Arguments

x	one out of "bottomright", "bottom", "bottomleft", "left", "topleft", "top", "topright", "right", "center"
region	one out of plot or figure
cex	the character extension for the text.
linset	line inset in lines of text.
...	the dots are passed to the strwidth() and strheight() functions in case there where more specific text formats.

Details

The same logic as for the legend can be useful for placing texts, too. This function returns the coordinates for the text, which can be used in the specific text functions.

Value

nothing returned

Author(s)

Andri Signorell <andri@signorell.net>

See Also

text, BoxedText

Examples

plot(x = rnorm(10), type="n", xlab="", ylab="")
# note that plot.new() has to be called before we can grab the geometry
ABCCoords("bottomleft")

lapply(c("bottomleft", "left"), ABCCoords)

plot(x = rnorm(10), type="n", xlab="", ylab="")
text(x=(xy <- ABCCoords("bottomleft", region = "plot"))$xy, 
     labels = "My Maybe Long Text", adj = xy$adj, xpd=NA)

text(x=(xy <- ABCCoords("topleft", region = "figure"))$xy, 
     labels = "My Maybe Long Text", adj = xy$adj, xpd=NA)

plot(x = rnorm(10), type="n", xlab="", ylab="")
sapply(c("topleft", "top", "topright", "left", "center", 
         "right", "bottomleft", "bottom", "bottomright"), 
       function(x) 
         text(x=(xy <- ABCCoords(x, region = "plot", linset=1))$xy, 
              labels = "MyMarginText", adj = xy$adj, xpd=NA)
)


plot(x = rnorm(100), type="n", xlab="", ylab="",
     panel.first={Bg(c("red", "lightyellow"))
             grid()})
xy <- ABCCoords("topleft", region = "plot")
par(xpd=NA)
BoxedText(x=xy$xy$x, y=xy$xy$y, xpad = 1, ypad = 1,
          labels = "My Maybe Long Text", adj = xy$adj, col=SetAlpha("green", 0.8))

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