legendg: Legend with grouped bars, lines or symbols

Description

Displays a legend with more than one rectangle, symbol or line.

Usage

legendg(x,y=NULL,legend,fill=NULL,col=par("col"),          
 border=list("black"),lty,lwd,pch=NULL,angle=45,density=NULL,       
 bty="o",bg=par("bg"),box.lwd=par("lwd"),box.lty=par("lty"), 
 box.col=par("fg"),pt.bg=NA,cex=1,pt.cex=cex,pt.lwd=lwd,  
 pt.space=1,xjust=0,yjust=1,x.intersp=1,y.intersp=1,
 adj=c(0,0.5),text.width=NULL,text.col=par("col"),merge=FALSE,
 trace=FALSE,plot=TRUE,ncol=1,horiz=FALSE,title=NULL,
 inset=0,xpd,title.col=text.col)

Value

The value returned by legend returned invisibly.

Arguments

x,y: Position of the legend as in legend.
legend: Labels for the legend as in legend.
fill: List of fill colors for the rectangles.
col: Color(s), perhaps as a list, for the symbols.
border: Border color(s) for the rectangles.
lty: Line type, currently ignored and set to 1.
lwd: Line width, currently ignored.
pch: List of symbols for the legend.
angle,density: Currently ignored.
bty: Legend box type to be displayed.
bg: Background color for the legend.
box.lwd,box.lty,box.col: Line width, type and color for the surrounding box.
cex: Character expansion for text.
pt.bg,pt.cex,pt.lwd: Background color, character expansion and line width for the symbols.
pt.space: Spacing for the symbols as a multiplier for strwidth("O").
xjust,yjust: Justification for the legend.
x.intersp,y.intersp: x and y character spacing for the legend text.
adj: Text adjustment.
text.width,text.col: Width and color of the legend text.
merge: Whether to merge points and lines.
trace: Show how the legend is calculated.
plot: Whether to plot the legend.
ncol: Number of columns in the legend.
horiz: Whether to display a horizontal legend.
title: Title for the legend.
inset: Inset distances for use with keywords.
xpd: An optional value for par(xpd=).
title.col: Color for the legend title.

Author

Jim Lemon

Details

legendg calls legend to display a legend with a blank space to the left of the labels. It then attempts to display groups of colored rectangles or symbols in that space depending upon the contents of either fill or pch. These should be in the form of a list with the number of elements equal to the number of labels, and one or more fills or symbols for each label. legendg will display up to four fills or symbols next to each label, allowing the user to label a group of these rather than just one per label.

Examples

Run this code

 plot(0.5,0.5,xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1),type="n",
  main="Test of grouped legend function")
 legendg(0.5,0.8,c("one","two","three"),pch=list(1,2:3,4:6),
  col=list(1,2:3,4:6),pt.space=1.5)
 legendg(0.5,0.5,c("one","two","three"),fill=list(1,2:3,4:6))
 # fake a line/point with text points
 legendg(0.2,0.25,c("letter","number"),
  pch=list(c("-","A","-"),c("-","1","-")),
  col=list(rep(2,3),rep(3,3)))

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