I have generated a simple plot in R that shows the correlation coefficients for a set of data. Currently, the legend colorbar on the right side of the plot is a fraction of the entire plot size.
I would like the legend colorbar to be same height as the plot. I thought that I could use the legend.key.height
to do this, but I have found that is not the case. I investigated the grid
package unit
function and found that there were some normalized units in there but when I tried them (unit(1, "npc")
), the colorbar was way too tall and went off the page.
How can I make the legend the same height as the plot itself?
A full self contained example is below:
library(ggplot2)
corrs <- structure(list(Var1 = structure(c(1L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 3L), levels = c("Var1", "Var2", "Var3"), class = "factor"), Var2 = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L), levels = c("Var1", "Var2", "Var3"), class = "factor"), value = c(1, -0.11814395012334, -0.91732952510938, -0.969618394505233, 1, -0.00122085912153125, -0.191116513684392, -0.0373711776919663, 1)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -9L))
ggplot(corrs, aes(x = Var1, y = Var2, fill = value)) +
geom_tile() +
theme(
panel.border = element_blank(),
axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90, vjust = 0.5, hjust = 1),
aspect.ratio = 1,
legend.position = "right",
legend.key.height = unit(1, "inch")
)
Created on 2022-12-29 with reprex v2.0.2
It seems quite tricky, the closest I got was this,
## panel height is 1null, so we work it out by subtracting the other heights from 1npc
## and 1line for the default plot margins
panel_height <- unit(1,"npc") - sum(ggplotGrob(plot)[["heights"]][-3]) - unit(1,"line")
plot + guides(fill= guide_colorbar(barheight=panel_height))
unfortunately the vertical justification is a bit off.