Legend type guide shows key (i.e., geoms) mapped onto values. Legend guides for various scales are integrated if possible.
guide_legend(title = waiver(), title.position = NULL, title.theme = NULL, title.hjust = NULL, title.vjust = NULL, label = TRUE, label.position = NULL, label.theme = NULL, label.hjust = NULL, label.vjust = NULL, keywidth = NULL, keyheight = NULL, direction = NULL, default.unit = "line", override.aes = list(), nrow = NULL, ncol = NULL, byrow = FALSE, reverse = FALSE, order = 0, ...)
title | A character string or expression indicating a title of guide.
If |
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title.position | A character string indicating the position of a title. One of "top" (default for a vertical guide), "bottom", "left" (default for a horizontal guide), or "right." |
title.theme | A theme object for rendering the title text. Usually the
object of |
title.hjust | A number specifying horizontal justification of the title text. |
title.vjust | A number specifying vertical justification of the title text. |
label | logical. If |
label.position | A character string indicating the position of a label. One of "top", "bottom" (default for horizontal guide), "left", or "right" (default for vertical guide). |
label.theme | A theme object for rendering the label text. Usually the
object of |
label.hjust | A numeric specifying horizontal justification of the label text. |
label.vjust | A numeric specifying vertical justification of the label text. |
keywidth | A numeric or a |
keyheight | A numeric or a |
direction | A character string indicating the direction of the guide. One of "horizontal" or "vertical." |
default.unit | A character string indicating |
override.aes | A list specifying aesthetic parameters of legend key. See details and examples. |
nrow | The desired number of rows of legends. |
ncol | The desired number of column of legends. |
byrow | logical. If |
reverse | logical. If |
order | positive integer less that 99 that specifies the order of this guide among multiple guides. This controls the order in which multiple guides are displayed, not the contents of the guide itself. If 0 (default), the order is determined by a secret algorithm. |
... | ignored. |
A guide object
Guides can be specified in each scale_*
or in guides()
.
guide="legend"
in scale_*
is syntactic sugar for
guide=guide_legend()
(e.g. scale_color_manual(guide = "legend")
).
As for how to specify the guide for each scale in more detail,
see guides()
.
Other guides: guide_colourbar
,
guides
df <- reshape2::melt(outer(1:4, 1:4), varnames = c("X1", "X2")) p1 <- ggplot(df, aes(X1, X2)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = value)) p2 <- p1 + geom_point(aes(size = value)) # Basic form p1 + scale_fill_continuous(guide = guide_legend())# Control styles # title position p1 + guides(fill = guide_legend(title = "LEFT", title.position = "left"))# title text styles via element_text p1 + guides(fill = guide_legend( title.theme = element_text( size = 15, face = "italic", colour = "red", angle = 0 ) ) )# label styles p1 + scale_fill_continuous(breaks = c(5, 10, 15), labels = paste("long", c(5, 10, 15)), guide = guide_legend( direction = "horizontal", title.position = "top", label.position = "bottom", label.hjust = 0.5, label.vjust = 1, label.theme = element_text(angle = 90) ) )# Set aesthetic of legend key # very low alpha value make it difficult to see legend key p3 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(vs, am, colour = factor(cyl))) + geom_jitter(alpha = 1/5, width = 0.01, height = 0.01) p3# override.aes overwrites the alpha p3 + guides(colour = guide_legend(override.aes = list(alpha = 1)))# multiple row/col legends df <- data.frame(x = 1:20, y = 1:20, color = letters[1:20]) p <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + geom_point(aes(colour = color)) p + guides(col = guide_legend(nrow = 8))