Change Spacing Between Horizontal Legend Items of ggplot2 Plot in R
In this article, we are going to see how to change the space between horizontal legend items using the ggplot2 bar plot in R programming language.
Here we are using a bar graph the same can be done to any other plot. For creating a simple bar plot we will use the function geom_bar( ).
Syntax:
geom_bar(stat, fill, color, width)
Parameters :
- stat : Set the stat parameter to identify the mode.
- fill : Represents color inside the bars.
- color : Represents color of outlines of the bars.
- width : Represents width of the bars.
Data in use:
Let us first create a regular plot so that the difference is apparent.
Example:
R
# Bar Plot with Legend at bottom library (ggplot2) # Inserting data runs <- data.frame (match= c ( "M-1" , "M-2" , "M-3" , "M-4" ), run= c (33, 45, 66, 50)) IPL <- ggplot (data=runs, aes (x=match, y=run,fill=match)) + coord_flip ()+ geom_bar (stat= "identity" )+ theme_classic ()+ theme (legend.position = 'bottom' ) IPL |
Output:
To change the space between the horizontal legends we have to use the command below:
legend.x = unit( unit_value, ‘cm’)
The command has to be written inside the theme( ) function where we have already assigned the position of the legend before.
Example:
R
library (ggplot2) # Inserting data runs <- data.frame (match= c ( "M-1" , "M-2" , "M-3" , "M-4" ), run= c (33, 45, 66, 50)) # spacing of 0.5 cm IPL+ theme (legend.spacing.x = unit (0.5, 'cm' )) # spacing of 1 cm IPL+ theme (legend.spacing.x = unit (1, 'cm' )) |
Output: