[Rd] Wishlist: simple legend options (PR#7400)

[Warnes, Gregory R]

I'm also glad to see this features go into the standard packages.  

I think that it may be worthwhile to regularly 'nominate' features/functions
present in other packages for 'promotion' into the standard R packages.

-G

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:r-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Dirk 
> Eddelbuettel
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 10:39 AM
> To: Duncan Murdoch
> Cc: Warnes, Gregory R; r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Wishlist: simple legend options (PR#7400)
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 03:08:11 +0000 (UTC), Gabor Grothendieck
> > <ggrothendieck at myway.com> wrote :
> > 
> > > <epurdom <at> stanford.edu> writes:
> > >
> > >: 
> > >: Full_Name: Elizabeth Purdom
> > >: Version: 1.9.1
> > >: OS: Windows XP
> > >: Submission from: (NULL) (171.64.102.199)
> > >: 
> > >: It would be nice if legend had the option of some 
> default locations you could
> > >: choose instead of entering specific coordinates, like "topleft",
> > >: "topright","topcenter", etc. based on par("usr") 
> coordinates. I know I've 
> > >wanted
> > >: it so often I've made my own simple non-robust 
> wrap-around, so I don't have 
> > >to
> > >: remember or parse the xjust and yjust options necessary 
> to make it work. Of
> > >: course there should be the option of entering in your 
> own coordinates. 
> > >
> > >Check out smartlengend in package gtools which is part of 
> the gregmisc
> > >bundle.  I agtee its a useful feature and it would be nice if that
> > >feature migrated to the base graphics.
> > 
> > I've put both the title and keyword placement of the legend into
> > legend() now, in R-devel.  I was unaware of the 
> smartlegend() function
> > (which is actually in gplots); I've just now added an "inset"
> > parameter like it has.  The specification for the location 
> is slightly
> > different than smartlegend() uses.  Because legend() handles the
> > second parameter in a strange way and I didn't want to fiddle with
> > that, I put the specification entirely in the first parameter:  you
> > say you want the legend at one of "bottomright", "bottom",
> > "bottomleft",  "left", "topleft", "top", "topright",
> > "right", or "center".
> > 
> > This should be downloadable tomorrow from the CRAN mirrors.
> 
> Sweet, thanks. I'm probably not the only one who wrote simple little
> wrappers for that at one point.  Good to have a more general 
> solution in
> base.
> 
> Dirk
> 
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