R-beta: legend

[Jay King]

The problem was in the background color. I did not expect the plot 
to use a white background and the legend to use black. I would have 
assumed that the background color was the same for both and found 
nothing to the contrary in the documentation.

> To:            "Jay King" <jking at metisrv0.man-env.com>
> Cc:            r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject:       Re: R-beta: legend
> From:          Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk>
> Date:          20 Feb 1998 17:57:47 +0100

> "Jay King" <jking at metisrv0.man-env.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Does the "legend" command work in the windows version of R? Here is 
> > the command that I'm using:
> > 
> > legend(1,1,legend=c("G1","G2","G3","G4","G5","G6"),pch=array(1:6,dim=c
> > (1,6)))
> > 
> > When I use this on my existing graph in a window I get a solid black 
> > box at the lower left. If I use this with the postscript driver my 
> > output file has neither a legend nor the black box.
> 
> You're not telling us what was on the plot in the first place, in
> particular not the x- and y-extents. I don't recall observing anything
> peculiar with the Windows version in that respect, but the plotting
> routines may have some idiosyncracies when you try to plot things that
> don't fit within the plotting frame.
> 
> First see if this works:
> 
> plot(1:6)
> legend(1,6,legend=c("G1","G2","G3","G4","G5","G6"),pch=1:6)
> 
> 
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