legend_margin {plotfunctions}R Documentation

Add legend with respect to figure instead of plot region. Allows to move legend to margin of plot.

Description

Add legend with respect to figure instead of plot region. Wrapper around the function legend.

Usage

legend_margin(x, legend, adj = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

Text string, the location of the legend relative to the figure region. Single keyword from the list 'bottomright', 'bottom', 'bottomleft', 'left', 'topleft', 'top', 'topright', 'right' and 'center'.

legend

Vector with text strings to appear in the legend.

adj

Numeric vector of length 1 or 2; the string adjustment for legend text.

...

Other parameters for specifying the legend (see legend).

Author(s)

Jacolien van Rij

See Also

Other Functions for plotting: addInterval(), add_bars(), add_n_points(), alphaPalette(), alpha(), check_normaldist(), color_contour(), dotplot_error(), drawDevArrows(), emptyPlot(), errorBars(), fill_area(), getCoords(), getFigCoords(), getProps(), gradientLegend(), marginDensityPlot(), plot_error(), plot_image(), plotsurface(), sortBoxplot()

Examples

plot(cars$speed, cars$dist, pch=16)
legend_margin('topleft', legend=c('points'), pch=16)
# compare with default legend:
legend('topleft', legend=c('points'), pch=16)

[Package plotfunctions version 1.4 Index]