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 would be interested in a way using just the base graph facilities and e.g., par(mar = ) to … Read more
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 leaves an ugly white rectangle in the upper right corner.) 9 Answers 9
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 being able to fiddle with the exact shrinking of the axis so that the legend fits. Shrinking the axes, however, … Read more
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.legend = FALSE). Edit: As this question and its answers are popular, a reproducible example seems in order: library(ggplot2) ggplot(data = mtcars, … Read more
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 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib import rc rc(‘mathtext’, default=”regular”) fig = plt.figure() ax … Read more
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.scatter(k, sum_cf, color=”black”, label=”Sum of Cause Fractions”) plot.scatter(k, data[:, 0], color=”b”, label=”Dis 1: cf = .6, var = .2″) plot.scatter(k, data[:, 1], color=”r”, … Read more
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 reduced. Kindly help me for the following queries: I want … Read more
