Thank you all for your kind reply and help.
I changed the legend function  as Mr. Peter Ehlers suggested and
the plots look good.

Thank you again.
                     Hannah

2010/7/22 Peter Ehlers <ehl...@ucalgary.ca>

>  On 2010-07-21 22:06, li li wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>   I am have some difficulty with the legend function.
>>   I need to add a legend to describe the different line types in a plot.
>> The
>> legend box is small.
>> It did not include sufficient length of each line type to help distinguish
>> the differnt line types.
>>   Is there a way to fix this.
>>   Thank you
>>                              Hannah
>>
>>
> If I understand correctly, you want to have longer
> line segments in your legend. I agree that this is
> sometimes desirable but, with the current code,
> it's not possible - the segment length is hard-coded.
>
> If it matters enough to you, you can easily modify the
> code to achieve your aim: search for the following two
> lines and in each replace the '2' with a greater value,
> say '3'.
>
> First line:
>
>            w0 <- w0 + (2 + x.off) * xchar
>
> Second line:
>
>        seg.len <- 2
>
> I don't think that this will have any undesirable side
> effects, but I haven't given it much thought. I haven't
> had any problems with this version of legend().
>
>  -Peter Ehlers
>

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