?par see the 'xpd' argument; e.g. you may use legend(..., xpd = NA)
or use the 'lattice' package Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: +86-(0)10-82509086 Fax: +86-(0)10-82509086 Mobile: +86-15810805877 Homepage: http://www.yihui.name School of Statistics, Room 1037, Mingde Main Building, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Paulo Barata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear R-list members, > > I am trying to put a legend just outside the plotting area > of a graph. > > 1. Is there some way to plot symbols on the figure margin, > in the same way as function "mtext" can write on the > margin? > > 2. Is there some way to use the "legend" function (or some > equivalent function) to plot a legend on the figure margin? > > 3. Any other way to plot either symbols or a legend > on the margin? > > I use R 2.7.2, running on Windows XP. > > Thank you very much. > > Paulo Barata > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Paulo Barata > Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz - Oswaldo Cruz Foundation > Rua Leopoldo Bulhoes 1480 - 8A > 21041-210 Rio de Janeiro - RJ > Brazil > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alternative e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ______________________________________________ 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.