Adjusting the Position of the Legend in Julia Plots 📂Julia

Adjusting the Position of the Legend in Julia Plots

Overview ¹

The position of the legend can be freely adjusted with the legend option of the plot() function. Giving a 2-tuple comprised of values between $0$ and $1$ will exactly place it at that location, otherwise, it can be controlled by symbols.

Symbols combine top/bottom and left/right in order. Adding an outer at the very beginning places the legend outside of the plot. Examples of symbols that can be created through combinations include:

:bottom
:left
:bottomleft
:outertopright

Since the order must be connected, symbols like :leftbottom or :toprightouter are not allowed.

Code

data = randn(100, 2)
plot(data)
plot(data, legend = (0.5, 0.7)); png("tuple")
Symbols = [:none, :bottom, :left, :bottomleft, :outertopright, :inline]
for symbol ∈ Symbols
    plot(data, legend = symbol)
    png(string(symbol))
end