ggguides: Simplified Legend and Guide Alignment for 'ggplot2'

Provides one-liner functions for common legend and guide operations in 'ggplot2'. Simplifies legend positioning, styling, wrapping, and collection across multi-panel plots created with 'patchwork' or 'cowplot'.

Version: 1.1.4
Imports: ggplot2 (≥ 3.5.0), grid, gridExtra, gtable, rlang
Suggests: patchwork, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-01-09
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ggguides (may not be active yet)
Author: Gilles Colling [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Gilles Colling <gilles.colling051 at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/gcol33/ggguides/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://gillescolling.com/ggguides/, https://github.com/gcol33/ggguides
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: ggguides results

Documentation:

Reference manual: ggguides.html , ggguides.pdf
Vignettes: Getting Started with ggguides (source, R code)
Multiple Legends (source, R code)
Patchwork Integration (source, R code)
Legend Positioning (source, R code)
Styling & Customization (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: ggguides_1.1.4.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): ggguides_1.1.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): ggguides_1.1.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): ggguides_1.1.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): ggguides_1.1.4.tgz

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