[Tex/LaTex] How to add one single legend entry for several plots

legendpgfplots

How can I create a single legend entry for 4 plots at the bottom of the group of plots?. Something like this:

    Title                        Title
--------------             ----------------
-            -             -              -
-            -             -              -
-            -             -              -
-            -             -              -
--------------             ----------------


    Title                       Title
--------------             ----------------
-            -             -              -
-            -             -              -
-            -             -              -
-            -             -              -
--------------             ----------------


          -------------------
           ---- line
           ---- line2
           ---- line3
           ---- line4
          -------------------

     Figure 1. A caption

This is the code from a previous question:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepgfplotslibrary{groupplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.12}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{groupplot}[
group style={
group name=my plots,
group size=2 by 2,
xlabels at=edge bottom,
ylabels at=edge left,
horizontal sep=2cm,vertical sep=3cm,
},
legend style={at={(.5,0.9)},anchor=north east},
symbolic x coords={Hamming loss, Accuracy, F1-score, Score, Recall, Precision, Jaccard similarity, F-Beta score}, xtick=data,
x tick label style={rotate=45,anchor=east},
width=0.5\linewidth
]
\nextgroupplot


\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};

\nextgroupplot


\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};


%Sistema para un kernel lineal:


\nextgroupplot


\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};

\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};


\nextgroupplot

%bolita
\addlegendentry{text1}
\addplot[mark=*,thick,blue] coordinates {(Hamming loss,55.36) (Accuracy,44.63) (F1-score,27.55) (Score,46.63) (Recall,44.63) (Precision, 19.26) (Jaccard similarity, 44.63) (F-Beta score,10.03)};

%rombo
\addlegendentry{text1 + text2}
\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,red] coordinates{(Hamming loss,55.12) (Accuracy,44.87) (F1-score,27.80) (Score,46.65) (Recall,45.0) (Precision, 20.20) (Jaccard similarity, 44.87) (F-Beta score,10.00)};

%linea punteada
\addlegendentry{text1 + text2 + text3}
\addplot[mark=o,mark options={solid},black,thick,dashed] coordinates {(Hamming loss,54.89) (Accuracy, 45.10) (F1-score,28.04) (Score,46.14) (Recall,45.0) (Precision, 20.34) (Jaccard similarity, 45.10) (F-Beta score,10.20)};


\addlegendentry{text1 + text2 + text3 + text4}
\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};



\end{groupplot}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

The problem with this is that the legend entries are overlying one each other, also how can I increase the size of all the plots in order to see what happened in a better way?. Thanks in advance for the help guys!

Best Answer

this is what john kormylo was referring to; i essentially used a verbatim copy/paste of your code (so the python programmer in me wants to have an mi because of the indentation):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepgfplotslibrary{groupplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.12}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{groupplot}[
group style={
    group name=my plots,
    group size=2 by 2,
    xlabels at=edge bottom,
    ylabels at=edge left,
    horizontal sep=2cm,vertical sep=3cm,},
legend style={at={(.5,0.9)},anchor=north east},
symbolic x coords={Hamming loss, Accuracy, F1-score, Score, Recall, Precision, Jaccard similarity, F-Beta score}, xtick=data,
x tick label style={rotate=45,anchor=east},
width=0.5\linewidth
]
\nextgroupplot

\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};

\nextgroupplot

\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};

%Sistema para un kernel lineal:

\nextgroupplot

\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};

\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};

\nextgroupplot[legend to name=testLegend]

%bolita
\addlegendentry{text1}
\addplot[mark=*,thick,blue] coordinates {(Hamming loss,55.36) (Accuracy,44.63) (F1-score,27.55) (Score,46.63) (Recall,44.63) (Precision, 19.26) (Jaccard similarity, 44.63) (F-Beta score,10.03)};

%rombo
\addlegendentry{text1 + text2}
\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,red] coordinates{(Hamming loss,55.12) (Accuracy,44.87) (F1-score,27.80) (Score,46.65) (Recall,45.0) (Precision, 20.20) (Jaccard similarity, 44.87) (F-Beta score,10.00)};

%linea punteada
\addlegendentry{text1 + text2 + text3}
\addplot[mark=o,mark options={solid},black,thick,dashed] coordinates {(Hamming loss,54.89) (Accuracy, 45.10) (F1-score,28.04) (Score,46.14) (Recall,45.0) (Precision, 20.34) (Jaccard similarity, 45.10) (F-Beta score,10.20)};

\addlegendentry{text1 + text2 + text3 + text4}
\addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};



\end{groupplot}
\end{tikzpicture}
\ref{testLegend}
\end{center}
\end{document}

that will at least get you a legend at the bottom like i think you want: legendToName

but i'm not exactly sure if that's what you want, and i think you asked something else about size but i have no idea what you mean by that, so feel free to clarify...

edit:

for this i'm assuming you want to glance at the plots in a slightly larger form so you can see if they came out correctly or something like that. i don't have any additional requirements so all i did was change how much space you're telling pgfplots it has to work with. i also cleaned it up a tiny bit:

\documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{fullpage}
    \usepackage{pgfplots}
    \usepgfplotslibrary{groupplots}
    \pgfplotsset{compat=1.12}
    \begin{document}

    \begin{center}
        \begin{tikzpicture}
            \begin{groupplot}[
                group style={
                    group name=my plots,
                    group size=2 by 2,
                    xlabels at=edge bottom,
                    ylabels at=edge left,
                    horizontal sep=2cm,
                    vertical sep=3cm,
                    },
                symbolic x coords={Hamming loss, Accuracy, F1-score, Score, Recall, Precision, Jaccard similarity, F-Beta score}, 
                xtick=data,
                x tick label style={rotate=45,anchor=east},
                width=0.5\linewidth
            ]
                \nextgroupplot
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};
                \nextgroupplot
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};
                %Sistema para un kernel lineal:
                \nextgroupplot
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};
                \nextgroupplot[legend to name=testLegend]
                    %bolita
                    \addlegendentry{text1}
                    \addplot[mark=*,thick,blue] coordinates {(Hamming loss,55.36) (Accuracy,44.63) (F1-score,27.55) (Score,46.63) (Recall,44.63) (Precision, 19.26) (Jaccard similarity, 44.63) (F-Beta score,10.03)};
                    %rombo
                    \addlegendentry{text1 + text2}
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,red] coordinates{(Hamming loss,55.12) (Accuracy,44.87) (F1-score,27.80) (Score,46.65) (Recall,45.0) (Precision, 20.20) (Jaccard similarity, 44.87) (F-Beta score,10.00)};
                    %linea punteada
                    \addlegendentry{text1 + text2 + text3}
                    \addplot[mark=o,mark options={solid},black,thick,dashed] coordinates {(Hamming loss,54.89) (Accuracy, 45.10) (F1-score,28.04) (Score,46.14) (Recall,45.0) (Precision, 20.34) (Jaccard similarity, 45.10) (F-Beta score,10.20)};
                    \addlegendentry{text1 + text2 + text3 + text4}
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};
            \end{groupplot}
        \end{tikzpicture}
        \ref{testLegend}
    \end{center}

\end{document}

i won't include an image since it looks very much the same, just larger in relation to the page. you don't need the legend style specification any longer. i opened the margins up a bit with \usepackage{fullpage} and that gives pgflots a little more room to work with. i presume you know that you're specifying the size of the plots yourself by including width=0.5\linewidth so the plots will get bigger if you change that to width=0.6\linewidth or something like that. i didn't add that since that will do unspeakable things to the margins and require a lot more fiddling.

edit again:

i added ymax= and ymin= as you requested...

\documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{fullpage}
    \usepackage{pgfplots}
    \usepgfplotslibrary{groupplots}
    \pgfplotsset{compat=1.12}
    \begin{document}

    \begin{center}
        \begin{tikzpicture}
            \begin{groupplot}[
                group style={
                    group name=my plots,
                    group size=2 by 2,
                    xlabels at=edge bottom,
                    ylabels at=edge left,
                    horizontal sep=2cm,
                    vertical sep=3cm,
                    },
                symbolic x coords={Hamming loss, Accuracy, F1-score, Score, Recall, Precision, Jaccard similarity, F-Beta score}, 
                xtick=data,
                x tick label style={rotate=45,anchor=east},
                ymax=100,
                ymin=10,
                width=0.5\linewidth
            ]
                \nextgroupplot
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};
                \nextgroupplot
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};
                %Sistema para un kernel lineal:
                \nextgroupplot
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};
                \nextgroupplot[legend to name=testLegend]
                    %bolita
                    \addlegendentry{text1}
                    \addplot[mark=*,thick,blue] coordinates {(Hamming loss,55.36) (Accuracy,44.63) (F1-score,27.55) (Score,46.63) (Recall,44.63) (Precision, 19.26) (Jaccard similarity, 44.63) (F-Beta score,10.03)};
                    %rombo
                    \addlegendentry{text1 + text2}
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,red] coordinates{(Hamming loss,55.12) (Accuracy,44.87) (F1-score,27.80) (Score,46.65) (Recall,45.0) (Precision, 20.20) (Jaccard similarity, 44.87) (F-Beta score,10.00)};
                    %linea punteada
                    \addlegendentry{text1 + text2 + text3}
                    \addplot[mark=o,mark options={solid},black,thick,dashed] coordinates {(Hamming loss,54.89) (Accuracy, 45.10) (F1-score,28.04) (Score,46.14) (Recall,45.0) (Precision, 20.34) (Jaccard similarity, 45.10) (F-Beta score,10.20)};
                    \addlegendentry{text1 + text2 + text3 + text4}
                    \addplot[mark=diamond*,thick,yellow] coordinates{(Hamming loss,52.44) (Accuracy, 47.55) (F1-score,30.64) (Score,44.94) (Recall,47.55) (Precision, 22.61) (Jaccard similarity, 47.55) (F-Beta score,10.62)};
            \end{groupplot}
        \end{tikzpicture}
        \ref{testLegend}
    \end{center}

\end{document}

...which produces:

tenToOneHundred

honestly though, i would change ymin=10 to something higher so that your last points aren't falling off the chart. pgfplots makes the plot bounds larger than your data range for pretty good reasons, imho.

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