Place a legend for each facet_wrap grid in ggplot2

user1471980 picture user1471980 · Feb 12, 2013 · Viewed 15.3k times · Source

I have this data frame:

        Date Server FileSystem PercentUsed
1  12/1/2011      A          /          60
2   1/2/2012      A       /var          50
3   2/1/2012      A        tmp          90
4  2/10/2012      A        /db          86
5  2/13/2012      A       /app          90
6  12/1/2011      B         C:          67
7   1/2/2012      B         D:          67
8   2/1/2012      B         F:          34
9  2/10/2012      B   /restore          89
10 2/13/2012      B         G:          56
11 12/1/2011      C          /          90
12  1/2/2012      C       /tmp          78
13  2/1/2012      C      /data          67
14 2/10/2012      C   /Storage          34
15 2/13/2012      C  /database          12

dput(x)
structure(list(Date = structure(c(2L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 5L, 2L, 1L, 
3L, 4L, 5L, 2L, 1L, 3L, 4L, 5L), .Label = c("1/2/2012", "12/1/2011", 
"2/1/2012", "2/10/2012", "2/13/2012"), class = "factor"), Server = structure(c(1L, 
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L), .Label = c("A", 
"B", "C"), class = "factor"), FileSystem = structure(c(1L, 9L, 
14L, 5L, 2L, 10L, 11L, 12L, 6L, 13L, 1L, 8L, 3L, 7L, 4L), .Label = c("/", 
"/app", "/data", "/database", "/db", "/restore", "/Storage", 
"/tmp", "/var", "C:", "D:", "F:", "G:", "tmp"), class = "factor"), 
    PercentUsed = c(60L, 50L, 90L, 86L, 90L, 67L, 67L, 34L, 89L, 
    56L, 90L, 78L, 67L, 34L, 12L)), .Names = c("Date", "Server", 
"FileSystem", "PercentUsed"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-15L))

I would like to put a legend right next to each facet_wrap grid, its own FileSystem:

When I do this, it puts the legend on the side of the plot for all of the FileSystem. Is it possible to put FileSystem belong to each server next to each grid?

ggplot(x, aes(Date, PercentUsed, group=1, colour=FileSystem)) + 
     geom_jitter(size=0.5) + geom_smooth(method="loess", se=T) + 
     facet_wrap(~Server, ncol=1)

Answer

joran picture joran · Feb 12, 2013

The best way to do this is with the gridExtra package:

library(gridExtra)

xs <- split(x,f = x$Server)
p1 <- ggplot(xs$A,aes(x = Date,y = PercentUsed,group = 1,colour = FileSystem)) + 
        geom_jitter(size=0.5) + 
        geom_smooth(method="loess", se=T) + 
        facet_wrap(~Server, ncol=1)

p2 <- p1 %+% xs$B
p3 <- p1 %+% xs$C

grid.arrange(p1,p2,p3)

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