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Change the legend order by order function

4 messages · John, Jeff Newmiller, PIKAL Petr +1 more

John
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Hi,

  I'd like to graph three lines on ggplot2 and I intend the lines to be
"solid", "dashed", and "dotted". The legend names are "name_b", "name_c",
"name_a". I'd like to legend to present in the order: the "name_b" at the
top, and "name_a" at the bottom.

   Could it be done by order function or its inverse?

Thanks,

##### source code

library(ggplot2)

od<-order(c("name_b", "name_c", "name_a"))
df<-data.frame(x1=c(1,2), y1=c(3,4),z1=c(5,6),w1=c(7,8))
p1<-ggplot(df, aes(x=1:2, y=x1))+
  geom_line(aes(linetype="name_b"))+
  geom_line(aes(x=1:2, y=y1, linetype="name_c"), df)+
  geom_line(aes(x=1:2, y=z1, linetype="name_a"), df)+
scale_linetype_manual(name="", values=c("solid","dashed", "dotted")[(od)],
labels=c("name_b","name_c","name_a"))


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Jeff Newmiller
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There are two key concepts you seem to be unaware of regarding ggplot: 1) you really need to put your data in long format to work with multiple curves, and 2) the column containing the names of the curves should be a factor with levels in the order you wish them to be presented in the legend (bottom to top). I am not in a position at the moment to give you a full reprex, but Google can probably help you find lots of examples... try keywords factor long ggplot.

Regarding using order to do this, the answer is likely "yes" but your existing example order seems easier to do with an explicit listing of labels in sequence... I cannot fathom why you think name_b, name_c, name_a is a natural result of using the order function that people will want to see. Either be explicit or use an alphabetic order, either way does not need the order function.
On May 23, 2018 10:27:14 AM GMT+02:00, John <miaojpm at gmail.com> wrote:

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      PIKAL Petr
    

    

      
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Hi

Which is actually answer the OP already got.

            

      
      
      
    

        
No id variables; using all as measure variables

            

      
      
      
    

        
+ scale_linetype_manual(values=c("solid", "dashed", "dotted", "blank"),
+ labels=c("name_b","name_a","name_c", "other"))

            

      
      
      
    

        
Cheers
Petr

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      S Ellison
    

    

      
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Things like 'high', 'med', 'low' also often need some care to avoid an inappropriate alphabetical ordering.

ggplot (like many base graphics) will typically sort and display by level order in a factor, not alphabetically.

So the key is to set the factor levels in the appropriate order in the first place. If you define the factor level order explicitly on creating the factor, as in
gp <- factor(<a vector>,  levels=c("name_b", "name_c", "name_a"))
#or, for a more obviously likely example
lmh <- factor(sample(c("High", "Medium", "Low"), 30, replace=T),  levels=c("Low", "Medium", "High"))

ggplot will then display legends etc in the defined and now appropriate factor level order by default.

S Ellison


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