custom_legend: Create a custom legend

In KarstensLab/microshades: A custom color palette for improving data visualization

Create a custom legend

Description

A customized legend sections the group taxonomy as headers and lists the subgroup taxonomies below each group header, for all the groups.

Usage

custom_legend(
  mdf,
  cdf,
  group_level = "Phylum",
  subgroup_level = "Genus",
  x = "Sample",
  y = "Abundance",
  legend_key_size = 0.4,
  legend_text_size = 10,
  legend_orientation = "vertical"
)

Arguments

mdf	data.frame melted dataframe
cdf	data.frame color dataframe
group_level	string of larger taxonomic group
subgroup_level	string of smaller taxonomic group
x	x-value plotted
y	y-value plotted
legend_key_size	numeric determines overall size of the legend keys
legend_text_size	integer determines size of legend text
legend_orientation	string determines vertical or horizontal orientation of legend

Value

complete_legend ggplot

Examples

legend_new <- custom_legend(mdf_GP, cdf_GP)

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