ggplot2 vertical colorbar title right centered

Question

I am trying to add a vertical centered title to my colorbar legend but it stacks the title on top of the colorbar instead of the the right. I have tried adding position = "right" but it does not help, i have tried vjust, hjust it does not work either.

The plot it produces:

what I would like:

Code:

ggplot(df, aes(x=img_type, y=metric),show.legend = FALSE) +
  geom_point(aes(size = abs_corr, colour=corr))+scale_size(range =c(-0.1,20) )+
  scale_colour_gradient2(
    low = "#7e1952",
    high = "#2f7a9a",
    space = "Lab",
    na.value = "white",
    guide = "colourbar",
    aesthetics = "colour",
    mid = "white",
    limits=c(-1,1), name = "Spearman's Correlation Coefficient"
  )+ guides(size = "none")+
  theme(legend.key.height = unit(2.5, "cm"))+
  guides(fill = guide_colourbar(label.position = "right"))+
  theme(legend.title = element_text(size = 12, angle = 90) )

Data:

   metric   pval    corr img_type abs_corr
1     aes 0.0000  0.6820   T2_TSE   0.6820
2     aes 0.0000  0.7365 T2_FLAIR   0.7365
3     aes 0.0003  0.2412   T1_MPR   0.2412
4     aes 0.0000  0.3510  T1_TIRM   0.3510
5      tg 0.0000  0.4434   T2_TSE   0.4434
6      tg 0.0000  0.8093 T2_FLAIR   0.8093
7      tg 0.0000  0.2813   T1_MPR   0.2813
8      tg 0.0000  0.3513  T1_TIRM   0.3513
9   coent 0.0028 -0.2583   T2_TSE   0.2583
10  coent 0.0008 -0.4210 T2_FLAIR   0.4210

Does this answer your question? [Legend title position in ggplot2](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9739947/legend-title-position-in-ggplot2) — GordonShumway, Dec 10 '21 at 18:22

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '21 at 18:30

Here is a solution, inspired in this SO post.
Note that in the question you have fill = guide_colourbar(.) when it should be colour = guide_colourbar(.).

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(df, aes(x=img_type, y=metric),show.legend = FALSE) +
  geom_point(aes(size = abs_corr, colour=corr))+
  scale_size(range =c(-0.1,20) )+
  scale_colour_gradient2(
    low = "#7e1952",
    high = "#2f7a9a",
    space = "Lab",
    na.value = "white",
    guide = "colourbar",
    aesthetics = "colour",
    mid = "white",
    limits=c(-1,1), name = "Spearman's Correlation Coefficient"
  )+ 
  guides(
    size = "none",
    colour = guide_colourbar(title.position = "right")
  )+
  theme(legend.key.height = unit(2.5, "cm"),
        legend.title = element_text(size = 12, angle = 90),
        legend.title.align = 0.5,
        legend.direction = "vertical"
  )

Data

df <-
structure(list(metric = c("aes", "aes", "aes", "aes", "tg", "tg", 
"tg", "tg", "coent", "coent"), pval = c(0, 0, 3e-04, 0, 0, 0, 
0, 0, 0.0028, 8e-04), corr = c(0.682, 0.7365, 0.2412, 0.351, 
0.4434, 0.8093, 0.2813, 0.3513, -0.2583, -0.421), img_type = c("T2_TSE", 
"T2_FLAIR", "T1_MPR", "T1_TIRM", "T2_TSE", "T2_FLAIR", "T1_MPR", 
"T1_TIRM", "T2_TSE", "T2_FLAIR"), abs_corr = c(0.682, 0.7365, 
0.2412, 0.351, 0.4434, 0.8093, 0.2813, 0.3513, 0.2583, 0.421)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10"))

ggplot2 vertical colorbar title right centered

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