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Rtist
Rtist

Reputation: 4205

How to align the legend key and text in ggplot?

I have the following data frame:

 df = data.frame(
  x = c(1:10, 1:10),
  y = 1:20,
  group = rep(c('male', 'female'), each = 10))

ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y, color = group)) + 
  geom_smooth()

As you can see, the text legend (male, female) appears right to the key legend (the blue and red horizontal bar). For language reasons I want the opposite: the key legend should be at the right of the text legend. I only found a solution to align the text to the left or the right, but not to put the key before or after the text. (See here Align legend text in ggplot) 

ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y, color = group)) + 
  geom_smooth() +
  theme(
    legend.text.align = 1)

Any idea?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2395

Answers (1)

amrrs
amrrs

Reputation: 6325

I hope this is what you wanted

library(ggplot2)

df = data.frame(
  x = c(1:10, 1:10),
  y = 1:20,
  group = rep(c('male', 'female'), each = 10))

ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y, color = group)) + 
  geom_smooth() +  
  theme(legend.position = 'right') + 
  guides(color = guide_legend(title.position = "top", 
                              # hjust = 0.5 centres the title horizontally
                              title.hjust = 0.5,
                              label.position = "left")) 
#> `geom_smooth()` using method = 'loess' and formula 'y ~ x'

Created on 2020-01-08 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

Upvotes: 5

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