[R] Legend Text Font Size

[Uwe Ligges]

On 16.02.2010 19:59, Rob Helpert wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a plot containing a large number of lines.  I have placed a
> legend in the plot, but with so many lines, the legend takes up a lot
> of space.  I have tried to reduce the spacing between the lines using
> the legend parameter x.intersp=0.7, but this does not compress the
> legend enough.  Is there some way to make the text font size smaller
> in "legend"?


Use argument cex, as usual in plot functions:

plot(1)
legend(1,1,legend="a very long text - some very small font size", pch=1, 
cex=0.5)

Uwe Ligges

> Thanks,
> RH.
>
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