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Adding a caption to a plot

element_text() methods can be used to customize the caption within graph

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library(ggplot2)
ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Length, y = Sepal.Width)) +
    geom_point()+
  
    # adding caption and subtitle
    labs(subtitle="Scatter plot - Examples",
       caption="w3wiki")+ 
  
    # size of the caption
    theme(plot.caption= element_text(size=15,
                                   color="Green"))
 






                        









													
													
												

												
												

													
													
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How to Add Caption to a ggplot in R?

												
												

													
													
In this article, we are going to see how we can add a caption to a plot in R Programming Language. The caption is much important in data visualization to display some details related to graphs.

													
													
												

												
											

										


										
										

											
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