[R] pch size in a legend

Allen Bingham aebingham2 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 03:59:29 CET 2015


Could you provide an example of trying to use pt.cex that "does not do the
job"?

Using pt.cex works fine for me when I've used it (R version 3.1.2 both 32
bit and 64 bit).

Here's some dummy code that demonstrates that the symbol size changes w/o
changing the text size:

   plot(x=c(0,6),y=c(0,6),type="n")
   legend(x="bottomright",title="Legend 1, symbol 2 with
pt.cex=1.25",legend=c("Item 1","Item
2"),pch=c(1,1),pt.cex=c(1,1.25),col=c('black','blue'))
   legend(x="topleft",title="Legend 2, symbol 2 with
pt.cex=1.75",legend=c("Item 1","Item
2"),pch=c(1,1),pt.cex=c(1,1.75),col=c('black','blue'))

see if that works for you?


______________________________________
Allen Bingham
Bingham Statistical Consulting

aebingham2 at gmail.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ahmed Attia [mailto:ahmedatia80 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 1:50 PM
To: r-help
Subject: [R] pch size in a legend

Hi R users,

I would like to adjust the pch size in a legend without changing the text
size, pt.cex does not do the job. R 2.15.2 32 bit.

legend(0,2100, legend=c("2009","2010","2012","2013","2014"),
col = 1,cex=1,lty=NA,pch=c(1,2,6,7,8),lwd=2,bty="n")

Thanks


Ahmed Attia, Ph.D.
Agronomist & Soil Scientist

Post-Doc Research Associate
Texas A&M AgriLife Research-Vernon
ahmed.attia at ag.tamu.edu
Cell phone: 001-979-248-5215



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