How to Draw a Legend to Base R Graph (Example Code)
In this R post you’ll learn how to apply the legend function.
Creating Example Data
data(iris) # Iris data set as example data head(iris) # Print head of iris data set # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa |
data(iris) # Iris data set as example data head(iris) # Print head of iris data set # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
Example: Drawing Legend to a Plot in Base R
plot(x = iris$Sepal.Length, # Draw plot y = iris$Sepal.Width, col = iris$Species) legend("topright", # Add legend legend = levels(iris$Species), col = 1:3, pch = 1) |
plot(x = iris$Sepal.Length, # Draw plot y = iris$Sepal.Width, col = iris$Species) legend("topright", # Add legend legend = levels(iris$Species), col = 1:3, pch = 1)
Further Resources & Related Articles
Please find some additional R programming tutorials on topics such as lines, text elements, and plot legends in the following list: