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I can never remember how to rotate the x-axis labels with ggplot2: theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90, hjust = 1, vjust = 0.5))
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# Adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/a/7267364/1036500 by Andrie de Vries | |
library(ggplot2) | |
td <- expand.grid( | |
hjust=c(0, 0.5, 1), | |
vjust=c(0, 0.5, 1), | |
angle=c(0, 45, 90), | |
text="text" | |
) | |
td$angle_exp <- | |
with(td, | |
ifelse(angle == 0, "angle = 0", | |
ifelse(angle == 45, "angle = 45", | |
"angle = 90"))) | |
, | |
ggplot(td, aes(x=hjust, | |
y=vjust)) + | |
geom_point(colour = "red", | |
size = 5) + | |
geom_text(aes(label=text, | |
angle=angle, | |
hjust=hjust, | |
vjust=vjust), | |
size = 5) + | |
facet_grid(~angle_exp) + | |
scale_x_continuous(breaks=c(0, 0.5, 1), | |
expand=c(0, 0.2)) + | |
scale_y_continuous(breaks=c(0, 0.5, 1), | |
expand=c(0, 0.2)) + | |
theme_minimal(base_size = 18) + | |
ggtitle("To rotate x-axis label text 90 degrees we use:\ntheme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90, hjust = 1, vjust = 0.5))") |
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