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Sarah
Sarah

Reputation: 3499

Remove vertical line in legend caused by geom_vline in ggplot

I'm trying to fix up a legend so that there isn't a cross caused by the geom_vline in ggplot. I know my example doesn't make much sense as a plot, but just wanted a quick reproducible example. 

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(diamonds)+
  geom_point(aes(x = carat, y = depth, colour = "depth"), pch = 4)+
  geom_line(aes(x = carat, y = table, colour = "table"))+
  geom_vline(aes(xintercept = 2, colour = "x = 2"))+
  guides(colour = guide_legend(override.aes = list(linetype=c(0,1,1), shape=c(4,NA,NA))))

I know I can use guide_legend(override.aes = …) to fix my issue with points and lines both appearing on each legend item but this does not appear to work to remove the vertical line created by geom_vline()

I have found several questions looking for a solution (below) but they all seem to solve it by separating the vline using a different aes (linetype or colours using fill). Is there a way I can keep the colour aes but not have my legend looking like this?

R - combined geom_vline and geom_smooth in legend

Legend showing an unexpected black line with geom_vline

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 3055

Answers (1)

AndS.
AndS.

Reputation: 8110

This seems to work out for this example. Not sure about your actual data.

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(diamonds)+
  geom_point(aes(x = carat, y = depth, colour = "depth"), pch = 4)+
  geom_line(aes(x = carat, y = table, colour = "table"))+
  geom_vline(aes(xintercept = 2, colour = "x = 2"), show.legend = F)+
  guides(colour = guide_legend(override.aes = list(linetype=c(0,1,1), shape=c(4,NA,NA))))

Created on 2018-09-09 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

Upvotes: 6

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