[R] Unwanted boxes in legend

[Peter Ehlers]

The 'border' argument was added in 2.1.10.


On 2010-04-21 1:53, Steve Murray wrote:
>
> Thanks Peter,
>
> I'm using version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20). This version should be recent enough to pick up fundamentals such as this, right? I guess the obvious thing to do is update and try again...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:55:20 -0600
>> From: ehlers at ucalgary.ca
>> To: tgstewart at gmail.com
>> CC: smurray444 at hotmail.com; r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] Unwanted boxes in legend
>>
>> On 2010-04-19 8:11, Thomas Stewart wrote:
>>> Try border=c(0,0,1,0).
>>> -tgs
>>
>> If the 'border' argument is not recognized, then this won't work.
>>
>> Steve:
>> What version of R are you using? I have no problems with the
>> suggestions I gave you in R 2.10.1 or R 2.11.0 alpha.
>>
>> -Peter Ehlers
>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Steve Murraywrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the response, however I'm getting the following error message
>>>> when I execute the legend command using the 'border' argument:
>>>>
>>>> Error in legend(10, par("usr")[4], c("A", "B", :
>>>> unused argument(s) (border = FALSE)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone aware of any alternative means of switching off boxes around all
>>>> but one of the elements in a legend?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks for any input,
>>>>
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------
>>>>> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:13:40 -0600
>>>>> From: ehlers at ucalgary.ca
>>>>> To: smurray444 at hotmail.com
>>>>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [R] Unwanted boxes in legend
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2010-04-15 11:10, Steve Murray wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am using the following code to generate a legend in my plot
>>>> (consisting of both bars and points), but end up with boxes around my
>>>> points:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> legend(10, par("usr")[4], c("A", "B", "C", "D"), fill=c(NA,NA, "grey28",
>>>> NA), pch=c(16,4,NA,18), col=c("red","blue","grey28","yellow"), lty=FALSE,
>>>> bty="n", horiz=FALSE)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want a box around the third element of the legend (to represent the
>>>> bar 'fill' colour), but not for the others, where points are shown instead.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What am I doing wrong above and how do I correct it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Add the 'border' argument:
>>>>>
>>>>> either
>>>>>
>>>>> border = FALSE # in which case no box is drawn for any element
>>>>>
>>>>> or
>>>>>
>>>>> border = c(NA, NA, "black", NA)
>>>>>
>>>>> -Peter Ehlers
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Peter Ehlers
>>>>> University of Calgary
>>>>
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>>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter Ehlers
>> University of Calgary
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