[R] How to make legend with line+ character

Uwe Ligges ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Mon Apr 26 14:02:37 CEST 2010



On 26.04.2010 13:32, Mario Valle wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have a multiline plot with each line labeled with a different letter.
> But I'm not able to make the legend display the same kind of pattern
> '-a-', instead the letter is overwritten by the line. A simpler legend
> with only the letter is not very visible and the pt.bg does nothing with
> letters. Any idea?
>
> plot(1:10,10:1,lty=1,type='b', lwd=2,pch='a')
> legend("left", legend=c("ds1","ds2"), bty='n', col=1:2,
> lty=2,lwd=4,pch=letters)


I'd fake it rather quickly using lty="14"

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks for your help!
> mario



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