Spacing the axis labels

Rotating Axis Labels

We can increase or decrease the space between the axis label and axis using the theme function. The axis.txt.x / axis.text.y parameter of theme() function is used to adjust the spacing using hjust and vjust argument of the element_text() function.

Syntax:

plot + theme( axis.text.x / axis.text.y = element_text( hjust, vjust )

where,

hjust: determines the horizontal justification
vjust: determines the vertical justification

Example:

In this example, we have added vertical space of 10 points using vjust command of theme function in the ggplot2 plot in the R Language.

R

# Create sample data
set.seed(5642)                             
sample_data <- data.frame(name = c("Geek1","Geek2",
                                   "Geek3","Geek4",
                                   "Geeek5") ,
                          value = c(31,12,15,28,45)) 
 
# Load ggplot2 package
library("ggplot2") 
 
# Create bar plot using ggplot() function
ggplot(sample_data,
             aes(name,value,, color=name)) + 
 
# geom_bar function is used to plot bars 
# of barplot
geom_bar(stat = "identity", fill="white")+
 
# vjust is used to justify the label vertically
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(vjust=-10)) 

Output:

Rotating and spacing axis labels in ggplot2 in R

In this article, we will discuss how to Rotate and space axis labels in the ggplot2 in the R Programming Language.

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Rotating Axis Labels

Spacing the axis labels

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Rotating and spacing axis labels in ggplot2 in R

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