From p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk  Mon Sep 18 22:43:40 2006
From: p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: 18 Sep 2006 22:43:40 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Legend frame error (PR#9236)
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tgibson at augustcouncil.com writes:

> Hello,
> The frame drawn around the legend appears to miscalculate when the
> x-axis decreases rather than increases.  Pasted below is a simple
> testcase.  When the x-axis decreases, the width of the legend frame
> appears to be calculated based on the length of the first item, rather
> than the maximum length of all items.

More likely, it is calculating the maximum of the endpoints, which
will of course be the one furthest to the left if the x axis is
reversed. (As reordering the legends would have shown you.)

The construction

    if (is.null(text.width))
        text.width <- max(strwidth(legend, units = "user", cex = cex))
    else if (!is.numeric(text.width) || text.width < 0)
        stop("'text.width' must be numeric, >= 0")

seems to be the culprit. max() should be min() in the reversed case.

And if I'm not mistaken, there's an additional issue: If the x axis is
reversed, an explicit text.width setting should in fact be negative.


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[Rd] Legend frame error (PR#9236)
Peter Dalgaard