> I am sorry to ask what I am sure is a simple question but I am stuck
> trying to figure out how different parts of ggplot2 calls interact
>
> I am plotting using the following code
>
> ggplot(Chem.comp, aes(Course, GRADE)) + geom_boxplot(notch = TRUE,aes(fill
> = COHORT))+
>   labs(y ="Grade Points in class",
>        x = "Chemistry 2 quarter") +
>   ggtitle(expression(atop("Comparison between ISE cohorts and Peers",
> atop(italic("in Chem 2 classes"), ""))))
>   ylim(0,4.3333)+
>   scale_fill_manual(name = "ISE Cohorts &\nComparison groups",
>                     values =
> c("blue","red","blue3","red3","blue4","red4")) +
>   theme(plot.title = element_text(size = 25, face = "bold", colour =
> "black", vjust = -1))+
>   guides(fill = guide_legend(nrow = 3),byrow = TRUE)
>
> which gives me a plot [available as a jpeg, not attached due to size
> limits]  which is has the appropriate title, but the colors and the legend
> are wrong. The colors cycle through R's standard colors, and the legend is
> 1 column.
>
> if I comment out the ggtitle() and theme(), or just ggtitle() I get a plot
> [available, but not attached ue to size limits] which has the right colors
> and mostly right legend, but no title and subtitle.  The legend is out of
> order.  the first row should read ISE07 CMP07 with 08 on the second row and
> 09 the third with a red column and a blue column.  Changing byrow = TRUE to
> bycol = TRUE does not change the plotting of the legend nor does byrow=FALSE
>
> I am asking for help with getting the title and sub-title to both show up
> at the same time as the appropriate colors for the different factor levels.
> And to get the legend to render so that the legend looks sort of like
> ISE07[red box]    [blue box   ]CMP07
> ISE08 [red3 box] [blue3 box]CMP08
> ISE09 [red4 box] [blue4 box]CMP09
> the exact colors are not important but the the vertical
> and horizontal alignment is.
>
> Thanks!
> Robert
>

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