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fill=c("white","dark grey","black","black"), density=c(NA,NA,25,75), etc Cheers Andrew On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:36:19PM +0000, Simon Pickett wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to make a legend with four symbols as follows > > 1.white box > 2.black box > 3.clear box (same as background) > 4.clear box with shading lines > > but the shading lines arent showing... > > here is my code. > > par(bg="lightyellow") > barplot(c(seq(1,6,1))) > legend(8.5,0.3, bty="o", legend=c("young","old","male","female"), > col="black",cex=1.5, > fill=c("white","dark grey",0,0),density=c(NA,NA,0,100),angle=45) > > any suggestions much appreciated, > Thanks, Simon. > > > > Simon Pickett > PhD student > Centre For Ecology and Conservation > Tremough Campus > University of Exeter in Cornwall > TR109EZ > Tel 01326371852 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~andrewpr http://blogs.mbs.edu/fishing-in-the-bay/ ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.