vcd (version 1.1-1)

grid_legend: Legend Function for grid Graphics

Description

This function can be used to add legends to grid-based plots.

Usage

grid_legend(x, y, pch, col, labels, frame = TRUE, hgap = unit(0.5, "lines"),
  vgap = unit(0.3, "lines"), default_units = "lines", gp = gpar(),
  draw = TRUE, title = "Legend:")

Arguments

x, y

coordinates of the legend

pch

integer vector of plotting symbols

col

character vector of colors for the symbols

labels

character vector of labels corresponding to the symbols

frame

logical indicating whether the legend should have a border or not.

hgap

object of class "unit" specifying the space between symbols and labels

vgap

object of class "unit" specifying the space between the lines

default_units

character string indicating the default unit

gp

object of class "gpar" used for the legend

draw

logical indicating whether the legend be drawn or not.

title

character string indicating the plot's title

Value

• Invisibly, the legend as a "grob" object.

See Also

legend

Examples

data("Lifeboats")
attach(Lifeboats)
ternaryplot(Lifeboats[,4:6],
  pch = ifelse(side == "Port", 1, 19),
  col = ifelse(side == "Port", "red", "blue"),
  id  = ifelse(men / total > 0.1, as.character(boat), NA),
  prop_size = 2,
  dimnames_position = "edge",
  main = "Lifeboats on Titanic")
grid_legend(0.8, 0.9, c(1, 19), c("red", "blue"),
  c("Port", "Starboard"), title = "SIDE")