legend at specific position outside the graphic area

[Joan Cardona]

Does anybody know how to place the legend at, for example, bottom left corner outside the graphic area? Is it, actually, possible?

I only know how to put it at the bottom, but it always appears centered (theme's legend.position="bottom"). I mean, it does'nt exist the "bottomleft" value or something similar. Other values of position (i.e. legend.position=c=(1,0)) shows the legend inside the graphic area, and this is not what I want. Any idea?

[Ben Bond-Lamberty]

It looks like legend.position accepts negative values, so combining
that with plot.margin should get you the desired effect, I think, e.g.

> last_plot() + theme(legend.position = c(-0.05, -0.05), plot.margin=unit(c(0.5,0.5,1.5,0.5),"cm"))

Ben

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