Fine Beautiful R Plot Axis Label Position
Rather than label the axis with vertical text positioned outside the plot area and centered along the axis as I usually do Kate suggests placing the label at the top of the axis.
R plot axis label position. At first the plot will be created without the x-axis. For the x-axis label it supports the values left center or right to place the label. Axes Labels in R How to set the title and axis-titles in R.
Rotate Axis Labels Horizontally In order to change the angle of the axis labels of a Base R plot we can use the las argument of the plot function. Plot 1100 cumsum rnorm 100 typel axesFALSE annFALSE axis 3 box mtext Top axis side3 line3 Changing distance between labels ticks and plot area. The axis function allows adding axes to all sides of the the current plot with the possibility of specifying the position and the labels of the tick marks.
Theme to change the axis appearance. By default R will use the vector names of your plot as X and Y axes labels. Recall to type axis for further details.
Ggplot2 section Data to Viz. In response to a recent post Getting Control of Axes in R Plots a reader suggests labeling the vertical axis slightly different than normal. Fixing the tick mark labels requires a little bit of trickery.
Here is a somewhat overblown example. R Fundamentals Axes Labels. How to set the title and axis-titles in R.
First you need to install the ggplot2 package if it is not previously installed in R Studio. Suggest an edit to this page. The following example shows how to change the size and the color of the x-axis labels.