[R] spacing of color key in filled.contour

[Jim Lemon]

On 01/20/2011 09:19 AM, claudia tebaldi wrote:
> Hi all
>
>
> I'm plotting colored contour maps using filled.contour. My levels
> are very unevenly spaced, with, say, high resolution in the small
> numbers but ranges that can be an order of magnitude or two larger in
> absolute value compared to where the action takes place. Aside from
> transforming the data, is there a way to control the color spacing in
> the key to the right of the map? Right now I get most of the key
> length taken up by a couple of colors and the rest all squeezed into
> thin slices, which also creates a problem with the fourth axis labels
> getting drawn on top of one another.
>
Hi Claudia,
You can roll your own color key with the color.legend function in 
plotrix. Just specify the colors you want in "rect.col" and the labels 
in "legend".

Jim