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()
plot....
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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.
ggplot(data = ...
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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)
## edit from ...
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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.
My ...
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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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matplotlib: colorbars and its text labels
I'd like to create a colorbar legend for a heatmap, such that the labels are in the center of each discrete color. Example borrowed from here:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from ...
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Remove extra legends in ggplot2
I have a simple data frame that I'm trying to do a combined line and point plot using ggplot2. Supposing my data looks like this:
df <- data.frame(x=rep(1:10,2), y=c(1:10,11:20),
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Keep unused levels in bar plot
I want to plot unused levels (that is, levels where the count is 0) in my bar-plot, however, unused levels are dropped and I cannot figure out how to keep them
df <- data.frame(type=c("A", "A", "A"...
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Legend on bottom, two rows wrapped in ggplot2 in r
library(ggplot2)
library(scales)
library(reshape2)
Rdates <- c("2007-01-31","2007-02-28","2007-03-30","2007-04-30","2007-05-31","2007-06-29&...
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Stop matplotlib repeating labels in legend
Here is a very simplified example:
xvalues = [2,3,4,6]
for x in xvalues:
plt.axvline(x,color='b',label='xvalues')
plt.legend()
The legend will now show 'xvalues' as a blue line 4 times in the ...
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Show only certain items in legend
I currently am plotting a stacked bar graph of a large amount of taxonomic data, and only wish to show significant species in the legend (out of ~500 I wish to show ~25). Is there a simple way to do ...
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Plot labels at ends of lines
I have the following data (temp.dat see end note for full data)
Year State Capex
1 2003 VIC 5.356415
2 2004 VIC 5.765232
3 2005 VIC 5.247276
4 2006 VIC 5.579882
5 2007 VIC ...
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How is order of items in matplotlib legend determined?
I am having to reorder items in a legend, when I don't think I should have to. I try:
from pylab import *
clf()
ax=gca()
ht=ax.add_patch(Rectangle((1,1),1,1,color='r',label='Top',alpha=.1))
h1=ax.bar(...
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How to edit a seaborn legend title and labels for figure-level functions
I've created this plot using Seaborn and a pandas dataframe (data):
My code:
import seaborn as sns
g = sns.lmplot('credibility', 'percentWatched', data=data, hue='millennial', markers=["+",...
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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 to place two different legends on the same graph
I have a plot where different colors are used for different parameters, and where different line styles are used for different algorithms. The goal is to compare the results of the different ...
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How to specify legend position in graph coordinates
I am aware of the bbox_to_anchor keyword and this thread, which very helpfully suggests how to manually place the legend:
How to put the legend out of the plot
However, I'd like to use the ...
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Move seaborn plot legend to a different position
I'm using factorplot(kind="bar") with seaborn.
The plot is fine except the legend is misplaced: too much to the right, text goes out of the plot's shaded area.
How do I make seaborn place the legend ...
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Matplotlib scatter plot legend
I created a 4D scatter plot graph to represent different temperatures in a specific area. When I create the legend, the legend shows the correct symbol and color but adds a line through it. The code I'...
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HighCharts Hide Series Name from the Legend
I try to solve this problem several times and give up. Now, when I have met him again, I decided to ask for some help.
I have this code for my Legend:
legend:
{
layout: 'vertical',
align: '...
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