Move legend to a specific position

A convenience function that returns a theme element to control legend position in ggplot2 plots.

Usage

legend_position(
  position = c("bottom", "top", "left", "right", "none"),
  direction = NULL,
  box = c("vertical", "horizontal")
)

Arguments

position

Legend position: "bottom", "top", "left", "right", or "none".

direction

Legend direction: "horizontal" or "vertical". Defaults to horizontal for bottom/top, vertical for left/right.

box

How to arrange multiple legends: "horizontal" or "vertical".

Value

A ggplot2 theme object that can be added to a plot.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
library(ggplot2)

# Legend on the right (default ggplot behavior)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, color = factor(cyl))) +
  geom_point() +
  legend_position("right")

# Remove legend
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, color = factor(cyl))) +
  geom_point() +
  legend_position("none")
} # }