[R] How to align the text in the legend

Wang, Zhaoming (NIH/NCI) [C] wangzha at mail.nih.gov
Thu Nov 29 22:20:41 CET 2007


Can you give me a little more in detail?  I'm new to this.
Thanks
Zhaoming

-----Original Message-----
From: jim holtman [mailto:jholtman at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 4:05 PM
To: Wang, Zhaoming (NIH/NCI) [C]
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] How to align the text in the legend

Have you tried a non-proportional font like Courier?

On Nov 29, 2007 12:14 PM, Wang, Zhaoming (NIH/NCI) [C]
<wangzha at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
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> I tried to align lines of text in the legend of a plot.  It always
> defaults to the central alignment.  How can I adjust it to be left
> alignment?
>
> Here is the code fragment written in python using Rpy module:
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>  text = 'Quantiles     #Loci\n'
>
>  text += '%s         %6d\n' % (' 100',totalloci)
>
>  text += '%s         %6d\n' % ('  95',per95cntloci)
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>  text += '%s         %6d\n' % ('  50',per50cntloci)
>
>  r.legend(20,30,text,cex=0.6,bty='n')
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> Thanks
>
> Zhaoming
>
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What is the problem you are trying to solve?



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