[R] plot legend: combining filled boxes and lines

Lauri Nikkinen lauri.nikkinen at iki.fi
Mon Sep 10 08:05:27 CEST 2007


Hello,

I have difficulties combining boxes and lines in plot legend. I
searched previous R-posts and found this (with no solution):
http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/06/07/30248.html. Is there a
way to avoid boxes behind the line legends?

x1 <- rnorm(100)
x2 <- rnorm(100, 2)
hist(x1, main = "", col = "orange",ylab = "density", xlab = "x", freq
= F, density = 55,  xlim = c(-2, 5), ylim = c(0, 0.5))
par(new = T)
hist(x2, main = "", col = "green", ylab = "", xlab = "",axes = F, xlim
= c(-2, 5), ylim = c(0, 0.5), density = 45, freq = F)

abline(v = mean(x1), col = "orange", lty = 2, lwd = 2.5)
abline(v = mean(x2), col = "green", lty = 2, lwd = 2.5)
legend(3, 0.45, legend = c("x1", "x2", "mean(x1)", "mean(x2)"), col =
c("orange", "green"), fill=c("orange","green", 0, 0),  lty = c(0, 0,
2, 2), merge = T)

Thanks
Lauri



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