Remove legend in tmap in R

Question

I have a simple question: How does one remove an automatically added legend in tmap in R?

In this case, I want to remove that legend on the right, depicting \'level\

Answer 1

Try this:

library(tmap)

tmap_mode("view")

tm_shape(densities$polygons) +
  tm_polygons(col = "plz", legend.show = FALSE) 

tm_layout() doesn't work in your case because you are in view-mode. Several other options for the legend in view mode won't work with tm_layout either, such as legend.position = (there is tm_view() for this)

If you switch to tmap_mode("plot") your code will work.

Answer 2

Instead of tm_polygons use tm_fill(title = "") to remove the legend title. This worked for me.