Thanks for the tip. I will try it out. I am more after a legend of colors than readable labels. In fact I would prefer getting rid of the text labels altogether.
On Jan 22, 2012, at 12:46 AM, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote: > On 01/22/2012 06:56 AM, Kevin Burton wrote: >> Of course by entering 'blah' you just get a legend of one value. I guess I >> would like to remove the text altogether and put the colored boxes (or >> circles) right next to each other. This would form sort of a gradient. So >> say I needed a legend for 100 colored values on the plot. The colors are >> generated by: >> colors<- rainbow(100) >> How would I make such a legend? > > Hi Kevin, > It sounds like you want something like color.legend (plotrix) that draws a > rectangle with as many colors as you like. However 100 colors would probably > require a legend as big as one side of the plot, and you certainly couldn't > get 100 readable labels on it. More like 10. > > Jim > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
