Help with removing extra legend elements in ggplot
On Nov 19, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Matthew Van Scoyoc wrote:
I can't get the fine tuning right with my legend. I get an extra legend element "10" which is the point size in my plot. Can someone help me get rid of this extra element? Additionally I would also like to reduce the size of the legend. If you want to reproduce my figure you can download my data in csv format here <https://github.com/scoyoc/EcoSiteDelineation/blob/master/VegNMDS_scores.csv
. Here is my code...
veg.nmds.sc = read.csv("VegNMDS_scores.csv", header = T)
nmds.fig = ggplot(data = veg.nmds.sc, aes(x = NMDS1, y = NMDS2))
nmds.fig + geom_point(aes(color = VegType, shape = VegType, size = 10)) +
scale_colour_manual(name = "Vegetation Type",
values = c("blue", "magenta", "gray50", "red",
"cyan3",
"green4", "gold")) +
scale_shape_manual(name = "Vegetation Type", values = c(15, 16, 17, 18,
15, 16, 17)) +
theme_bw() +
theme(panel.background = element_blank(), panel.grid.major =
element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
legend.key = element_rect(color = "white")
)
I have been messing around with
theme(..., legend.key.size = unit(1, "cm"))
but I keep getting the error "could not find function unit". I'm not sure why, isn't unit supposed to be part of the legend.key argument?
Try this workaround to what sounds like a bug: library(grid) # then repeat the call.
David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA