Align legend horizontal ggplot2

Question

I am curious as to whether there is a way to stack legends horizontally rather than vertically in ggplot2 and ggnewscale:

Example using mtcars dataset:

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, y = cyl)) +
  geom_point(aes(col = gear)) +
  ggnewscale::new_scale_color() +
  geom_point(aes(col = carb))

Plot for example

Answer 1

You can individually control legends via guides(...):

library(ggnewscale)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, y = cyl)) +
  geom_point(aes(col = gear)) +
  ggnewscale::new_scale_color() +
  geom_point(aes(col = carb))+
  theme(legend.direction = "vertical",
      legend.box = "horizontal",
      legend.position = "right") +
  guides(size=guide_legend(direction='horizontal'))