[R] Question regarding legend look

[David Winsemius]

On Dec 1, 2010, at 11:51 AM, David Winsemius wrote:

>
> On Dec 1, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Filoche wrote:
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>>
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> I have a quick question regarding the look of my legend in my plot.  
>> As you
>> can see in the next figure, I have 3 series.
>>
>> http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3067466/legend.png
>>
>>
>> However, I find rather difficult to differentiate the series 1 and 3
>> according to their line type (lty). I would like to know if it was  
>> possible
>> to make the line type in the legend to appear more clearly. For  
>> example, to
>> give more horizontal space each side of the symbols "square" to  
>> have a
>> better idea of the line type.
>
snipped
> t (perhaps) you could emphasize the line compenent by increasing cex  
> which affects all components and at the same time decrease the point  
> size. E.g.:
>
> legend( ..., cex=1.5, pt.cex=0.8, cex=1.5, pt.cex=0.8, ...)

At one point that said:
   legend( ..., merge=TRUE, cex=1.5, pt.cex=0.8, ...)

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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT