legend.byrow = TRUE doesn't seem to be working

[Ari04T]

Hello

I'm using the 3.4.4900 version of ggplot2 and the legend.byrow argument doesn't seem to be working as expected. I added the argument in both theme and guides but it makes no difference if you add it in only one of them or both (or none I guess).

df <- data.frame(x = 1:20, y = 1:20, color = letters[1:20])
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
    geom_point(aes(colour = color)) +
    theme(
        legend.byrow = TRUE
    ) +
    guides(col = guide_legend(nrow = 8, byrow = TRUE))

Expected behaviour

Actual behaviour

[teunbrand]

Hi there, thanks for the report! I can confirm this is not working as intended.

[teunbrand]

Considered fixed by #5662.