Questions tagged [legend]
A graph legend is commonly used when plotting several sets of data within the same diagram. The legend associates each plot with its corresponding data.
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How to put the legend outside the plot
I have a series of 20 plots (not subplots) to be made in a single figure. I want the legend to be outside of the box. At the same time, I do not want to change the axes, as the size of the figure gets ...
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How to change legend fontsize with matplotlib.pyplot
Simple question here: I'm trying to get the size of my legend using matplotlib.pyplot to be smaller (i.e., the text to be smaller). The code I'm using goes something like this:
plot.figure()
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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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Secondary axis with twinx(): how to add to legend
I have a plot with two y-axes, using twinx(). I also give labels to the lines, and want to show them with legend(), but I only succeed to get the labels of one axis in the legend:
import numpy as np
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Remove legend ggplot 2.2
I'm trying to keep the legend of one layer (smooth) and remove the legend of the other (point). I have tried shutting off the legends with guides(colour = FALSE) and geom_point(aes(color = vs), show....
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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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Remove the legend on a matplotlib figure
To add a legend to a matplotlib plot, one simply runs legend().
How to remove a legend from a plot?
(The closest I came to this is to run legend([]) in order to empty the legend from data. But that ...
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Moving matplotlib legend outside of the axis makes it cutoff by the figure box
I'm familiar with the following questions:
Matplotlib savefig with a legend outside the plot
How to put the legend out of the plot
It seems that the answers in these questions have the luxury of ...
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Plot a legend outside of the plotting area in base graphics?
As the title says: How can I plot a legend outside the plotting area when using base graphics?
I thought about fiddling around with layout and produce an empty plot to only contain the legend, but I ...
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Add a common Legend for combined ggplots
I have two ggplots which I align horizontally with grid.arrange. I have looked through a lot of forum posts, but everything I try seem to be commands that are now updated and named something else.
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Remove 'a' from legend when using aesthetics and geom_text
How can I can remove the letter 'a' from the legend generated by this code? If I remove the geom_text, then the 'a' letter will not show in the legend. I want to keep geom_text, though.
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Is there a way to change the spacing between legend items in ggplot2?
Is there a way to change the spacing between legend items in ggplot2? I currently have
legend.position ="top"
which automatically produces a horizontal legend. However, the spacing of the items is ...
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Add legend to ggplot2 line plot
I have a question about legends in ggplot2. I managed to plot three lines in the same graph and want to add a legend with the three colors used. This is the code used
library(ggplot2)
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How to manually create a legend
I am using matplotlib and I would like to manually add items to the legend that are a color and a label. I am adding data to to the plot to specifying there would lead to a lot of duplicates.
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Global legend and title aside subplots
I've started with matplot and managed some basic plots, but now I find it hard to discover how to do some stuff I need now :(
My actual question is how to place a global title and global legend on a ...
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