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Continuous colour bar guide

Source: R/guide-colorbar.R
guide_colourbar.Rd

Colour bar guide shows continuous colour scales mapped onto values. Colour bar is available with scale_fill and scale_colour. For more information, see the inspiration for this function: Matlab's colorbar function.

Usage

guide_colourbar(
  title = waiver(),
  theme = NULL,
  nbin = NULL,
  display = "raster",
  raster = deprecated(),
  alpha = NA,
  draw.ulim = TRUE,
  draw.llim = TRUE,
  position = NULL,
  direction = NULL,
  reverse = FALSE,
  order = 0,
  available_aes = c("colour", "color", "fill"),
  ...
)

guide_colorbar(
  title = waiver(),
  theme = NULL,
  nbin = NULL,
  display = "raster",
  raster = deprecated(),
  alpha = NA,
  draw.ulim = TRUE,
  draw.llim = TRUE,
  position = NULL,
  direction = NULL,
  reverse = FALSE,
  order = 0,
  available_aes = c("colour", "color", "fill"),
  ...
)

Arguments

title

A character string or expression indicating a title of guide. If NULL, the title is not shown. By default (waiver()), the name of the scale object or the name specified in labs() is used for the title.

theme

A theme object to style the guide individually or differently from the plot's theme settings. The theme argument in the guide overrides, and is combined with, the plot's theme.

nbin

A numeric specifying the number of bins for drawing the colourbar. A smoother colourbar results from a larger value.

display

A string indicating a method to display the colourbar. Can be one of the following:

  • "raster" to display as a bitmap image.

  • "rectangles" to display as a series of rectangles.

  • "gradient" to display as a linear gradient.

Note that not all devices are able to render rasters and gradients.

raster

[Deprecated] A logical. If TRUE then the colourbar is rendered as a raster object. If FALSE then the colourbar is rendered as a set of rectangles. Note that not all graphics devices are capable of rendering raster image.

alpha

A numeric between 0 and 1 setting the colour transparency of the bar. Use NA to preserve the alpha encoded in the colour itself (default).

draw.ulim

A logical specifying if the upper limit tick marks should be visible.

draw.llim

A logical specifying if the lower limit tick marks should be visible.

position

A character string indicating where the legend should be placed relative to the plot panels.

direction

A character string indicating the direction of the guide. One of "horizontal" or "vertical."

reverse

logical. If TRUE the colourbar is reversed. By default, the highest value is on the top and the lowest value is on the bottom

order

positive integer less than 99 that specifies the order of this guide among multiple guides. This controls the order in which multiple guides are displayed, not the contents of the guide itself. If 0 (default), the order is determined by a secret algorithm.

available_aes

A vector of character strings listing the aesthetics for which a colourbar can be drawn.

...

ignored.

Value

A guide object

Details

Guides can be specified in each scale_* or in guides(). guide="legend" in scale_* is syntactic sugar for guide=guide_legend() (e.g. scale_colour_manual(guide = "legend")). As for how to specify the guide for each scale in more detail, see guides().

See also

The continuous legend section of the online ggplot2 book.

Other guides: guide_bins(), guide_coloursteps(), guide_legend(), guides()

Examples

df <- expand.grid(X1 = 1:10, X2 = 1:10)
df$value <- df$X1 * df$X2

p1 <- ggplot(df, aes(X1, X2)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = value))
p2 <- p1 + geom_point(aes(size = value))

# Basic form
p1 + scale_fill_continuous(guide = "colourbar")

p1 + scale_fill_continuous(guide = guide_colourbar())

p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar())


# Control styles

# bar size
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(theme = theme(
  legend.key.width  = unit(0.5, "lines"),
  legend.key.height = unit(10, "lines")
)))



# no label
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(theme = theme(
  legend.text = element_blank()
)))


# no tick marks
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(theme = theme(
  legend.ticks = element_blank()
)))


# label position
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(theme = theme(
  legend.text.position = "left"
)))


# label theme
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(theme = theme(
  legend.text = element_text(colour = "blue", angle = 0)
)))


# small number of bins
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(nbin = 3))


# large number of bins
p1 + guides(fill = guide_colourbar(nbin = 100))


# make top- and bottom-most ticks invisible
p1 +
  scale_fill_continuous(
    limits = c(0,20), breaks = c(0, 5, 10, 15, 20),
    guide = guide_colourbar(nbin = 100, draw.ulim = FALSE, draw.llim = FALSE)
  )


# guides can be controlled independently
p2 +
  scale_fill_continuous(guide = "colourbar") +
  scale_size(guide = "legend")

p2 + guides(fill = "colourbar", size = "legend")


p2 +
  scale_fill_continuous(guide = guide_colourbar(theme = theme(
    legend.direction = "horizontal"
  ))) +
  scale_size(guide = guide_legend(theme = theme(
    legend.direction = "vertical"
  )))