[R] Unwanted boxes in legend

[Steve Murray]

Ok thanks Peter! That should solve it.

Thanks again for looking into this.

Steve

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> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:04:33 -0600
> From: ehlers at ucalgary.ca
> To: smurray444 at hotmail.com
> CC: r-help at r-project.org; tgstewart at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [R] Unwanted boxes in legend
>
> On 2010-04-21 4:35, Peter Ehlers wrote:
>> The 'border' argument was added in 2.1.10.
>
> Egad! Did I really type that?
> I meant 'in R 2.10.0'.
>
> -Peter Ehlers
>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>> University of Calgary
>>>>>>
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>>>>
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