[Rd] legend() graphics output bug (PR#5725)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de wrote:

> gasser at websource.ch wrote:
> > Full_Name: Daniel Gasser
> > Version: 1.8.1
> > OS: Win XP
> > Submission from: (NULL) (130.60.20.92)
> > 
> > 
> > The legend()-Function shows a different behaviour than it did in Version 1.6.1.
> > It plots a black box left of the legend lines on each legend row. In 1.6.1 there
> > was just the line in appropriate color for each row in the legend (i was using
> > exactly the same legend statement and same plot function).
> > My legend statement is:
> > legend(x=(daysold+2), y=0.95*maxy.j, legend=leg.txt, col = leg.col, lty=1,angle
> > = NULL, density = NULL, bty = "o", xjust = 0, yjust = 1, x.intersp = 1,
> > y.intersp = 1, ncol = 1, horiz = FALSE)
> > 
> > If i write the statement as follows:
> > legend(x=(daysold+2), y=0.95*maxy.j, legend=leg.txt, col = leg.col, lty=1,angle
> > = NULL, density = NULL, bty = "o", xjust = 0, yjust = 1, x.intersp = 1,
> > y.intersp = 1, ncol = 1, horiz = FALSE, merge = TRUE)
> > 
> > The merge = TRUE statemen merges the black boxes (one for each row) and the
> > colored lines in the legend, but the boxes remain there.
> 
> Don't specify "density" which implies that you are requesting the boxes. 
> Looks like there was a bug in R-1.6.1 that has been fixed.

Several, with

    o	legend() allows shading without filling again.

being the critical one.


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