legendmt: legend with multiline title
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legendmt

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legend with multiline title

Description

Draw a legend with title spanning several lines (i.e. with line breaks). Note that this is in development and not all inputs are correctly vectorized yet.

Usage

legendmt(
  x,
  y = NULL,
  legend,
  title,
  x.intersp = 1,
  fill = NA,
  col = par("col"),
  border = NA,
  lty = NA,
  lwd = NA,
  pch = NA,
  ...
)

Arguments

`x`, `y`, `legend`	Arguments as in `legend`
`title`	Character with linebreaks or vector of charstrings.
`x.intersp`, `fill`, `col`, `border`, `lty`, `lwd`, `pch`	Arguments as in `legend`
`...`	Further arguments passed to `legend`. If vectorized, please remember to prepend NAs or whatever.

Value

legend output

Author(s)

Berry Boessenkool, berry-b@gmx.de, Apr 2017

Examples

plot(1:10)
  legend("topleft", letters[1:4], col=1:4, pch=1, title="very long title to be split up")
legendmt("topleft", letters[1:4], col=1:4, pch=1, title="very long title\nnow splat up")

# Alternative:
plot(1:10)
legend("topleft", "very long title to be split up")
legend("topleft", letters[1:4], col=1:4, pch=1, inset=c(0,0.09) )

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