Manual position of collected guides #177

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1. thomasp85 commented on May 12, 2020

   

   thomasp85

   on May 12, 2020

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   Have a look at guide_area() 🙂
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   closed this as completedon May 12, 2020
3. costavale commented on May 12, 2020

   

   costavale

   on May 12, 2020

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   Thank you! (....and what about the justification of the collected guides? thk)
4. thomasp85 commented on May 12, 2020

   

   thomasp85

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   These can be set in the patchwork theme
5. MokeEire commented on Nov 23, 2020

   

   MokeEire

   on Nov 23, 2020

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   Is there a way to position the collected guides inside the plot area of one panel? The following naive attempt did not work:

   p1 + p2 + 
       inset_element(guide_area(), left = 0.6, bottom = 0.6, right = 1, top = 1) +
       plot_layout(guides = "collect")
   

   The way I was able to get the result I wanted was to set legend.position = "none" on the left panel and legend.position = c(.15, .9) on the right panel.

   
6. jarbet commented on Mar 26, 2026

   

   jarbet

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   I case anyone else is wondering, guide_area can also be used with wrap_plots:

   suppressPackageStartupMessages({
       library(ggplot2)
       library(patchwork)
   })
   p1 <- ggplot(mtcars) + geom_point(aes(mpg, disp, colour = factor(gear)))
   p2 <- ggplot(mtcars) + geom_boxplot(aes(gear, disp, group = gear))
   p3 <- ggplot(mtcars) + geom_bar(aes(gear)) + facet_wrap(~cyl)
   
   # Using guide_area() you can also designate an empty area for this
   p1 + p2 + p3 + guide_area() + plot_layout(guides = 'collect')
   
   ### using wrap_plots:
   plot_list <- list(
       p1,
       p2,
       p3,
       guide_area()
   )
   patchwork::wrap_plots(
       plot_list,
       ncol = 2,
       guides = 'collect'
   )