On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:57, Marcus Leinweber wrote: > hello, > > > the following example gives a plot with a legend: > > > plot(-10:10,-10:10,type="n") > x=1:10 > y=1:10 > tt=c("A","B","C","D","E","F") > text(x,y,tt,cex=.8) > legend(-10,10,paste(tt," ",x,y),text.col=c(2:4)) # each row in different > colour > > but how can I colour the legend text by "column" meaning tt in red, x in > blue and y in green? > > thanks for your help. > > marcus
This is possible, using a bit of a trick with legend(). Instead of printing each row in sequence, we print each column in sequence: x <- 1:10 y <- 1:10 tt <- LETTERS[1:10] plot(x, y, pch = tt) # Now use legend. Modify the vector of # text items here so that each set of 10 # elements are in sequence. Modify the color # argument to be a sequence of 10 of each color # set the 'ncol' argument to 3 legend(1, 10, c(tt, x, y), text.col = rep(2:4, each = 10), ncol = 3) HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html