[R] How to create separate legend for each plot in the function of facet_wrap in ggplot2?

[Dominik Schneider]

That's not the point of facet_wrap so check out the cowplot package for
combining multiple ggplot objects (with legends) into one figure.

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Marna Wagley <marna.wagley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi R users,
> I need to create more than 20 figures (one for each group) in one page. I
> have a  common  legend for 20 figures using the facet_wrap. However the
> range of the values among the groups are very wide. For example one group
> has the value of 0 to 3, but the values of some of the groups has ranged
> from 0 to 20 so that when I used a single common legend for all 20 figures,
> I could not display the contrast of the values in some of the figures.
> Therefore I wanted to create the figures with *a separate legend*.In this
> way, I can display the gradient of the values in each figure.  Any
> suggestions on how I can create it.
>
> The example is given below, *I wanted to create a separate legend with
> keeping legend inside of each of the figure*.
>
> library(ggplot2)
>
> dat<-structure(list(X = c(289.6, 289.7, 289.8, 289.9, 290, 290.1,
>
> 927.8, 927.9, 928, 928.1, 928.2, 928.3), Y = c(789.1, 789.2,
>
> 789.3, 789.4, 789.5, 789.6, 171.1, 171.2, 171.3, 171.4, 171.5,
>
> 171.6), value = c(0.05, 0.06, 0.07, 0.09, 0.1, 0.11, 0.06, 0.05,
>
> 0.05, 0.06, 0.1, 1.5), group = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
>
> 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("A", "B"), class = "factor")),
> .Names = c("X",
>
> "Y", "value", "group"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
>
> -12L))
>
>
> AB<-ggplot(data = dat, aes(x = X, y = Y, color =  value)) +
> geom_point(size
> =2) +
>
> coord_equal() +  theme_bw()+ scale_color_gradientn(colours =
> terrain.colors(
> 7))
>
> AB+facet_wrap(~group,  scales="free")+theme(strip.text = element_text(size
> = 8))
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> MW
>
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