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Tagged with legend legend-properties
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How do I make a single legend for many subplots?
I am plotting the same type of information, but for different countries, with multiple subplots with Matplotlib. That is, I have nine plots on a 3x3 grid, all with the same for lines (of course, ...
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Adding a matplotlib legend
How can one create a legend for a line graph in Matplotlib's PyPlot without creating any extra variables?
Please consider the graphing script below:
if __name__ == '__main__':
PyPlot.plot(length, ...
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How to add a string as the artist to a legend
I am trying to create a legend in a python figure where the artist is a string (a single letter) which is then labelled. For example I would like a legend for the following figure:
import numpy as np
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Change main plot legend label text
So far I have been able to label the subplots just fine but I'm having an issue with the main one.
Here's the relevant part of my code:
data_BS_P = data[channels[0]]
data_BS_R = data[channels[1]]
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Two geom_points add a legend
I plot a 2 geom_point graph with the following code:
source("http://www.openintro.org/stat/data/arbuthnot.R")
library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
geom_point(aes(x = year,y = boys),data=arbuthnot,colour = '#...
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How to add data table with legend keys to a MS Chart in C#?
There are 2 lists called listversion & MIN_list. Using values of these list I have created a line chart. Everything is work fine. But I am wondering whether it is possible to add a data table with ...
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Is it possible to add a string as a legend item
I am producing some plots in matplotlib and would like to add explanatory text for some of the data. I want to have a string inside my legend as a separate legend item above the '0-10' item. Does ...
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How to move or position a legend in ggplot2
I'm trying to create a ggplot2 plot with the legend beneath the plot.
The ggplot2 book says on p 112 "The position and justification of legends are controlled by the theme setting legend.position, ...
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How do I assign multiple legend labels at once?
I have the following dataset:
x = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
y = [ [0, 1, 2, 3, 4],
[5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
[9, 8, 7, 6, 5] ]
Now I plot it with:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(x, y)
However, ...
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Combine two patches for legend
I am trying to plot some data with confidence bands. I am doing this with two plots for each data stream: plot, and fill_between. I would like the legend to look similar to the plots, where each entry ...
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How to make two markers share the same label in the legend
What I want is like this:
What I get is this:
So how to merge the markers into one label?
also for the lines, for the lines, of course, u can realize it by not assigning label to the second line ...
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How to add a legend for two geom layers in one ggplot2 plot?
I've got a data frame that looks like this:
glimpse(spottingIntensityByMonth)
# Observations: 27
# Variables: 3
# $ yearMonth <dttm> 2015-05-01, 2015-06-01, 2015-07-01, 2015-08-01, 2015-09-01, ...
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ggplot2 draws two legends
I have almost complete the following graph, but there is one problem with it.
The legend in the graph is drawn twice.
Here is the data:
structure(list(Period = c("January 1997 - August 2003", "...
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Matplotlib automatic legend outside plot [duplicate]
I am trying to use the keyword bbox_to_anchor() in a matplotlib plot in Python.
Here is a very basic plot that I have produced based on this example. :
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = [1,2,3]
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matplotlib legend not working correctly with handles
Matplotlib can display a legend automatically or manually with giving it handles to the plots. But somehow the latter is not working correctly for me. Take this example:
legend_handles = {}
lgh, = ...
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