How to generate multiple columns in legend using ggplot2 (R)

Question

I want to generate a multiple-column legend (2 or more) for the following figure using this piece of code. But the guides() does not work properly. Can someone help me?

library(ggplot2)
 testdf <- data.frame(site=unlist(strsplit(rawToChar(as.raw(65:90)),split = '')),
                              x = c(seq(0:24),80), y = seq(1:26))
 testdf$colours <- 'red'
 p <- ggplot(data=testdf,aes(x,y))
 p + scale_shape_manual(values=testdf$x)+
   scale_colour_manual(values=testdf$colours)+
   geom_point(aes(shape=site,colour=site),size=5)+
   guides(col=guide_legend(ncol=3,byrow=TRUE))

Thanks, Katie

guides(shape=guide_legend(ncol=3,byrow=TRUE)) will do, I think — jazzurro
– jazzurro, Commented Oct 7, 2015 at 13:41

Thierry · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-07 13:45:56Z

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col3 <- guide_legend(ncol = 3)
ggplot(testdf, aes(x = x, y = y, shape = site, colour = site)) + 
  geom_point() + 
  scale_shape_manual(values = testdf$x, guide = col3) + 
  scale_colour_manual(values = testdf$colours, guide = col3)

answered Oct 7, 2015 at 13:45

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