Legend placement, ggplot, relative to plotting region

Question

Problem here is a bit obvious I think. I\'d like the legend placed (locked) in the top left hand corner of the \'plotting region\'. Using c(0.1,0.13) etc is not an option fo

Answer 1

To expand on the excellend answers above, if you want to add padding between the legend and the outside of the box, use legend.box.margin:

# Positions legend at the bottom right, with 50 padding
# between the legend and the outside of the graph.
theme(legend.justification = c(1, 0), 
    legend.position = c(1, 0),
    legend.box.margin=margin(c(50,50,50,50)))

This works on the latest version of ggplot2 which is v2.2.1 at the time of writing.