Here I have theme_light() but in the plot I still have the x/y axis & legend + grid. I want to remove those and only have my light background + plot 'pic'. When I use theme_void -> it removes the legend but then the background is void. Any idea how to solve this so I only have a white background and my plot?
pic <- ggplot(data = art_dat, mapping = aes(x = x, y = y, group = path_id,
color = step_id)
) +
geom_path(
size = .9,
alpha = 1000, #transparency of the lines
show.legend = FALSE
) +
coord_equal() +
theme_light() +
scale_color_scico(palette = "berlin")
EDIT: Updated as you have posted an image. You do not have a legend, so you do not need to remove it. You want to remove the axis lines, ticks, text, title and maybe(?) the panel grid lines:
pic <- ggplot(data = art_dat, mapping = aes(x = x, y = y, group = path_id,
color = step_id)
) +
geom_path(
size = .9,
alpha = 1000, #transparency of the lines
show.legend = FALSE
) +
coord_equal() +
theme_light() +
scale_color_scico(palette = "berlin") +
theme(
axis.line = element_blank(),
axis.text = element_blank(),
axis.ticks = element_blank(),
axis.title = element_blank(),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(), # optional - remove gridlines
panel.grid.minor = element_blank() # optional - remove gridlines
)
If you add some adjustments to theme void, you can get rid of the legend. In addition, you can make the legend white with the plot.background argument. In the example below I made it red to show that there are no margins left and such. There is a row of white pixels, but I don't know what to do against that.
library(ggplot2)
p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy, colour = cyl)) +
geom_point()
p + theme_void() +
theme(
legend.position = "none",
plot.background = element_rect(fill = "red", colour = NA)
)
Created on 2022-01-18 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)
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I have made a plot with a legend.
Using an image editing program I made the legend invisible (but otherwise the figure has the same dimensions)
Is it possible to do this in ggplot2? I want to have a 2x2 panel of diagrams in a document but only one legend.
Using this as an example,
library(ggplot2)
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = disp, y = hp, color = factor(cyl))) +
geom_point() +
geom_line()
The following seems to work:
p + theme(
legend.text = element_text(color = "white"),
legend.title = element_text(color = "white"),
legend.key = element_rect(fill = "white")
) +
scale_color_discrete(
guide = guide_legend(override.aes = list(color = "white"))
)
Notice that the dimension of the gray plot area did not change.
Making the elements just white could cause problems, i.e. in cases of continuous scales or so. One may makes the scales and text elements just invisible.
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = disp, y = hp, lty = factor(gear))) +
geom_point(aes(color = cyl)) +
geom_line()
Gives a normal plot with legend:
Now make it really "invisible" by setting alpha = 0 in override.aes = list() within the guide = guide_legend() argument for each of the scales and color = "transparent" for the text elements of the legend:
p + scale_color_continuous(guide = guide_legend(override.aes = list(alpha = 0) ) )+
scale_linetype(guide = guide_legend(override.aes = list(alpha = 0) ) )+
theme(legend.title = element_text(color = "transparent"),
legend.text = element_text(color = "transparent"))
I have been trying to shift my legend title across to be centered over the legend contents using the guide function. I've been trying to use the following code:
guides(colour=guide_legend(title.hjust = 20))
I thought of trying to make a reproducable example, but I think the reason it's not working has something to do with the above line not matching the rest of my code specifically. So here is the rest of the code I'm using in my plot:
NH4.cum <- ggplot(data=NH4_by_Date, aes(x=date, y=avg.NH4, group = CO2, colour=CO2)) +
geom_line(aes(linetype=CO2), size=1) + #line options
geom_point(size=3) + #point symbol sizes
#scale_shape_manual(values = c(1, 16)) + #manually choose symbols
theme_bw()+
theme(axis.text.x=element_text(colour="white"), #change x axis labels to white.
axis.title=element_text(size=12),
axis.title.x = element_text(color="white"), #Change x axis label colour to white
panel.border = element_blank(), #remove box boarder
axis.line.x = element_line(color="black", size = 0.5), #add x axis line
axis.line.y = element_line(color="black", size = 0.5), #add y axis line
legend.key = element_blank(), #remove grey box from around legend
legend.position = c(0.9, 0.6))+ #change legend position
geom_vline(xintercept=c(1.4,7.5), linetype="dotted", color="black")+ #put in dotted lines for season boundaries
scale_color_manual(values = c("#FF6600", "green4", "#0099FF"),
name=expression(CO[2]~concentration~(ppm))) + #manually define line colour
scale_linetype_manual(guide="none", values=c("solid", "solid", "solid")) + #manually define line types
scale_shape_manual(values = c(16, 16, 16)) + #manually choose symbols
guides(colour=guide_legend(title.hjust = 20))+
scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0, 0), limits = c(0,2200), breaks=seq(0,2200,200))+ #change x axis to intercept y axis at 0
xlab("Date")+
ylab(expression(Membrane~available~NH[4]^{" +"}~-N~(~mu~g~resin^{-1}~14~day^{-1})))+
theme(panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank())+
geom_errorbar(aes(ymin = avg.NH4 - se.NH4, #set y error bars
ymax = avg.NH4 + se.NH4),
width=0.1)
I have tried doing the following instead with no luck:
guides(fill=guide_legend(title.hjust=20)
I have also adjusted the hjust value from values between -2 to 20 just to see if that made a difference but it didn't.
I'll try to attach a picture of the graph so far so you can see what I'm talking about.
I've looked through all the questions I can on stack overflow and to the best of my knowledge this is not a duplicate as it's specific to a coding error of my own somewhere.
Thank-you in advance!!
The obvious approach e.g.
theme(legend.title = element_text(hjust = .5))
didn't work for me. I wonder if it is related to this open issue in ggplot2. In any case, one manual approach would be to remove the legend title, and position a new one manually:
ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = wt, y = mpg, colour = factor(cyl))) +
geom_point() +
stat_smooth(se = FALSE) +
theme_bw() +
theme(legend.position = c(.85, .6),
legend.title = element_blank(),
legend.background = element_rect(fill = alpha("white", 0)),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank()) +
annotate("text", x = 5, y = 27, size = 3,
label = "CO[2]~concentration~(ppm)", parse = TRUE)
Output:
I'm plotting a species prediction map in ggplot using a spatial pixels data frame. I have the plot pretty much how I want it, the only problem is that my raster scale goes from white to red and so it's hard to see where it begins in the legend see the plot. I want to draw a box to outline to the legend key- just the bar going from white to red not the rest of it. I've being searching for over an hour but I can't find any way to do this, only ways to give the legend a background or draw a box around the legend text and bar, which I don't want to do. Does anyone know if this is possible to do in ggplot or do I need to change my colour gradient?
Thanks!
My plotting code:
ggplot() +
geom_raster(data=habs_pop_clip1, aes(x = easting.x, y = northing.x, fill = pred)) +
scale_fill_gradient("Probability of occurrence", low="white", high="red",limits = c(0,1)) +
coord_fixed(ratio=1, xlim=c(545000, 654000), ylim=c(278000,347000))+
geom_polygon(data=Norfolk1, aes(x=long, y=lat, Group=group), color="grey",fill=NA)+
theme(text = element_text(family = "serif")) +
geom_segment(aes(x = 550000, y = 278500, xend = 560000, yend = 278500), lineend = "round") +
annotate("text", x = 555000, xend = 555000, y = 282000, yend = 282000, label = "10 km", family = "serif", size = 4) +
ggtitle(colnames(bat_occ[i+7])) +
theme(plot.margin=unit(c(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5), "cm")) +
theme_bw() +
theme(axis.line = element_line(colour = "black"),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.border = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank(),
axis.line=element_blank(),
axis.ticks=element_blank(),
axis.title.x=element_blank(),
axis.title.y=element_blank(),
axis.text =element_blank())
I don't know if there's a built-in parameter. If not, you could add a rectangle manually,
df <- reshape2::melt(outer(1:4, 1:4), varnames = c("X1", "X2"))
p <- ggplot(df, aes(X1, X2)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = value))+ scale_fill_continuous(guide = "colorbar")
g <- ggplotGrob(p)
g$grobs[[8]][[1]][[1]] <- gtable::gtable_add_grob(g$grobs[[8]][[1]][[1]],
rectGrob(gp=gpar(fill=NA, lwd=5)), 4, 2)
grid.newpage()
grid.draw(g)
I have a plot in ggplot that shows me for each category of "rating" the level of price in "bank" and "sistem". This is my code:
##fict
a<-c("rating1","rating2","rating3")
b<-c(1.2,1.2,1.3)
c<-c(1.6,1.4,1.6)
gg<-cbind('rating'=rep(a,2),'price'=c(b,c),'tipo'=rep(c("bank","sistem"),3))
gg<-as.data.frame(gg)
a<-rgb(red=150, green=191, blue=37, maxColorValue = 255)
b<-rgb(red=80, green=113, blue=14, maxColorValue = 255)
ggplot(gg, aes(x=tipo, y=price,width=1)) +
geom_bar(position='stack', stat='identity', fill=c(b,a), color='black') +
facet_wrap( ~ rating)+
theme_bw() + theme(axis.line = element_line(colour = "black"),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.border = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank(),
strip.background = element_rect(colour = 'white', fill = 'white', size = 3),
axis.title.y=element_text(vjust=0.19),
axis.title.x=element_text(vjust=0.19)
#strip.text.x = element_text(colour = 'red', angle = 45, size = 10, hjust = 0.5, vjust = 0.5, face = 'bold')
) + xlab("My x label") +
ylab("My y label") +
labs(title = 'difference')
This code generates my plot.
I'd like to change 3 things:
I'd like that the labels rating shows in the bottom
I'd like that the "bank" and "sistem" labels disappear and change it with the legend with colors for bank and sistem.
If it's possible also put the legend under the x-axis title in horizontal way
Thank you
Upgrade comment to an answer.
library(ggplot2)
# your data - tweaked the code - there is no need to cbind within data.frame
# and names do not need to be in quotes
gg <- data.frame(rating=rep(c("rating1","rating2","rating3"),2),
price=c(c(1.2,1.2,1.3),c(1.6,1.4,1.6)),
tipo=rep(c("bank","sistem"),3))
a <- rgb(red=150, green=191, blue=37, maxColorValue = 255)
b <- rgb(red=80, green=113, blue=14, maxColorValue = 255)
# Plot
# use position dodge to get the bars side-by-side
# theme_classic removes grid lines and uses theme_bw()
# scale_fill_manual to manually specify the colours - by using fill = tipo in the
# aesthetic call of ggplot a legend will be generated
# scale_y_continuous - using expand starts the axis at exactly zero
ggplot(gg, aes(x=rating, y=price, fill=tipo)) +
geom_bar(position='dodge', stat='identity', color='black') +
theme_classic() +
scale_fill_manual(values = c(b,a)) +
scale_y_continuous(limit=c(0,2), expand=c(0,0)) +
labs(title = 'difference', x = "My x label", y = "My y label") +
theme(
axis.title.y=element_text(vjust=0.19),
axis.title.x=element_text(vjust=0.19) ,
legend.position = "bottom",
legend.title=element_blank())
I would like to reproduce the plot immediately below by using ggplot2. I can come close, but cannot remove the top and right borders. Below I present several attempts using ggplot2, including several suggestions found on or via Stackoverflow. Unfortunately I have not been able to get those suggestions to work.
I am hoping someone may be able to correct one or more of the code snippets below.
Thank you for any suggestions.
# desired plot
a <- seq(1,20)
b <- a^0.25
plot(a,b, bty = "l")
library(ggplot2)
df <- as.data.frame(cbind(a,b))
# 1. ggplot2 default
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point()
# 2. removes background color
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black'))
# 3. also removes gridlines
none <- theme_blank()
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black')) + opts(panel.grid.major = none, panel.grid.minor = none)
# 4. does not remove top and right border
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black')) + opts(panel.grid.major = none, panel.grid.minor = none) + opts(panel.border = none)
# 5. does not remove top and right border
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black')) + opts(panel.grid.major = none, panel.grid.minor = none) + opts(axis.line = theme_segment())
# 6. removes x and y axis in addition to top and right border
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5458409/remove-top-and-right-border-from-ggplot2
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black')) + opts(panel.grid.major = none, panel.grid.minor = none) + opts(panel.background=theme_rect(colour=NA))
# 7. returns error when attempting to remove top and right border
# https://groups.google.com/group/ggplot2/browse_thread/thread/f998d113638bf251
#
# Error in el(...) : could not find function "polylineGrob"
#
theme_L_border <- function(colour = "black", size = 1, linetype = 1) {
structure(
function(x = 0, y = 0, width = 1, height = 1, ...) {
polylineGrob(
x=c(x+width, x, x), y=c(y,y,y+height), ..., default.units = "npc",
gp=gpar(lwd=size, col=colour, lty=linetype),
)
},
class = "theme",
type = "box",
call = match.call()
)
}
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black')) + opts(panel.grid.major = none, panel.grid.minor = none) + opts( panel.border = theme_L_border())
EDIT Ignore this answer. There are now better answers. See the comments. Use + theme_classic()
EDIT
This is a better version. The bug mentioned below in the original post remains (I think). But the axis line is drawn under the panel. Therefore, remove both the panel.border and panel.background to see the axis lines.
library(ggplot2)
a <- seq(1,20)
b <- a^0.25
df <- data.frame(a,b)
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() +
theme_bw() +
theme(axis.line = element_line(colour = "black"),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.border = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank())
Original post
This gets close. There was a bug with axis.line not working on the y-axis (see here), that appears not to be fixed yet. Therefore, after removing the panel border, the y-axis has to be drawn in separately using geom_vline.
library(ggplot2)
library(grid)
a <- seq(1,20)
b <- a^0.25
df <- data.frame(a,b)
p = ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() +
scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0,0)) +
scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0,0)) +
theme_bw() +
opts(axis.line = theme_segment(colour = "black"),
panel.grid.major = theme_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = theme_blank(),
panel.border = theme_blank()) +
geom_vline(xintercept = 0)
p
The extreme points are clipped, but the clipping can be undone using code by baptiste.
gt <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(p))
gt$layout$clip[gt$layout$name=="panel"] <- "off"
grid.draw(gt)
Or use limits to move the boundaries of the panel.
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() +
xlim(0,22) + ylim(.95, 2.1) +
scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0,0), limits = c(0,22)) +
scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0,0), limits = c(.95, 2.2)) +
theme_bw() +
opts(axis.line = theme_segment(colour = "black"),
panel.grid.major = theme_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = theme_blank(),
panel.border = theme_blank()) +
geom_vline(xintercept = 0)
Recent updates to ggplot (0.9.2+) have overhauled the syntax for themes. Most notably, opts() is now deprecated, having been replaced by theme(). Sandy's answer will still (as of Jan '12) generates a chart, but causes R to throw a bunch of warnings.
Here's updated code reflecting current ggplot syntax:
library(ggplot2)
a <- seq(1,20)
b <- a^0.25
df <- as.data.frame(cbind(a,b))
#base ggplot object
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b))
p +
#plots the points
geom_point() +
#theme with white background
theme_bw() +
#eliminates background, gridlines, and chart border
theme(
plot.background = element_blank(),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.border = element_blank()
) +
#draws x and y axis line
theme(axis.line = element_line(color = 'black'))
generates:
An alternative to theme_classic() is the theme that comes with the cowplot package, theme_cowplot() (loaded automatically with the package). It looks similar to theme_classic(), with a few subtle differences. Most importantly, the default label sizes are larger, so the resulting figures can be used in publications without further modifications needed (in particular if you save them with save_plot() instead of ggsave()). Also, the background is transparent, not white, which may be useful if you want to edit the figure in illustrator. Finally, faceted plots look better, in my opinion.
Example:
library(cowplot)
a <- seq(1,20)
b <- a^0.25
df <- as.data.frame(cbind(a,b))
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point()
save_plot('plot.png', p) # alternative to ggsave, with default settings that work well with the theme
This is what the file plot.png produced by this code looks like:
Disclaimer: I'm the package author.
I followed Andrew's answer, but I also had to follow https://stackoverflow.com/a/35833548 and set the x and y axes separately due to a bug in my version of ggplot (v2.1.0).
Instead of
theme(axis.line = element_line(color = 'black'))
I used
theme(axis.line.x = element_line(color="black", size = 2),
axis.line.y = element_line(color="black", size = 2))
The above options do not work for maps created with sf and geom_sf(). Hence, I want to add the relevant ndiscr parameter here. This will create a nice clean map showing only the features.
library(sf)
library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
geom_sf(data = some_shp) +
theme_minimal() + # white background
theme(axis.text = element_blank(), # remove geographic coordinates
axis.ticks = element_blank()) + # remove ticks
coord_sf(ndiscr = 0) # remove grid in the background
Simplification from the above Andrew's answer leads to this key theme to generate the half border.
theme (panel.border = element_blank(),
axis.line = element_line(color='black'))
Here's an extremely simple answer
yourPlot +
theme(
panel.border = element_blank(),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
axis.line = element_line(colour = "black")
)
It's that easy. Source: the end of this article
You may be check also panel.background as well.
theme(
panel.background = element_rect(fill = "black"),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank()