[R] Legend in plot: symbol for mean and standard deviation

Marco Kienzle m.kienzle at marlab.ac.uk
Tue Feb 25 16:51:46 CET 2003


Dear list,


I attached to this mail an eps file containing an example that illustrate the problem: the
plot display dot+vertical lines while with the legend I am able only to
display dot+horizontal line.

Any help is appreciate,

cheers,
marco

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 17:51, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> Marco Kienzle wrote:
> > 
> > Dear list,
> > 
> > I am facing the following problem with the legend of a plot that display
> > the mean and variance of a measurement y as a function of x, the mean
> > being represented by a dot and the variance by a vertical line.
> 
> At least for me the latter does not appear to be "that common" ...
> 
> > My problem is that I am unable to display the symbol (dot + vertical
> > line) in the legend.
> > 
> > any help is welcome,
> > thanks
> > marco
> 
> 
> Does the following do what you are looking for?
> 
>   legend(..., c("y.", "y|"))
> or
>   legend(..., expression(y[.], y["|"]))
> 
> 
> Uwe Ligges
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