[R] vjust unresponsive (ggplot2)

[Hadley Wickham]

vjust was always a hack that I never thought should work. The margins
parameter is the correct way to solve this problem as of ggplot2 2.0.0.

Hadley

On Tuesday, December 22, 2015, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) <NordlDJ at dshs.wa.gov>
wrote:

> Ista,
>
> You are correct, I was not at the latest release of ggplot2.  I updated to
> the latest version and am now seeing the same result as you and the OP.  So
> it does look like an issue with the latest version of ggplot2.
>
> Dan
>
> Daniel Nordlund, PhD
> Research and Data Analysis Division
> Services & Enterprise Support Administration
> Washington State Department of Social and Health Services
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istazahn at gmail.com <javascript:;>]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 10:48 AM
> > To: Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
> > Cc: r-help at r-project.org <javascript:;>
> > Subject: Re: [R] vjust unresponsive (ggplot2)
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > Chances are that you haven't yet upgraded to ggplot2 version 2.0. unit
> (as
> > well as arrow and alpha) are now re-exported from ggplot2.
> >
> > Using the latest release I also see that vjust doesn't seem to do
> anything.
> >
> > Best,
> > Ista
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA)
> > <NordlDJ at dshs.wa.gov <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > > Are you sure it is not working for you?  Your example code did not
> work for
> > me at all until I removed the plot .margin  parameter (unit wasn't
> > recognized).  Once I did that hjust and vjust worked as expected.
> However,
> > values between .1 and .9 for vjust don't really move the axis title very
> much
> > so it may not be real noticeable.  Try a value like 2 or 3, just to make
> sure you
> > easily see the change in position before concluding that nothing is
> > happening.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > Daniel Nordlund, PhD
> > > Research and Data Analysis Division
> > > Services & Enterprise Support Administration Washington State
> > > Department of Social and Health Services
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org <javascript:;>] On
> Behalf Of Ryan
> > > Utz
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 10:00 AM
> > > To: r-help at r-project.org <javascript:;>
> > > Subject: [R] vjust unresponsive (ggplot2)
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I cannot for the life of me get my axis titles to adjust vertically in
> a ggplot.
> > I've seen several posts about this and have tried everything:
> > > keeping vjust within 0 and 1, adjusting the margins, etc. hjust is
> behaving
> > just as it should but vjust just mocks me in silence. No error message is
> > produced.
> > >
> > > Here's a sample code:
> > >
> > > x=data.frame(sample(1:10))
> > > x[,2]=sample(1:10)
> > >
> > > ggplot(data=x,aes(x=V2,y=V2))+theme(axis.title.y=element_text(vjust=.1
> > > ,hjust=0.6),
> > > plot.margin=unit(c(1,1,2,2),'cm'))
> > >
> > > No matter what I put into vjust, nothing happens. Am I missing
> something
> > obvious??
> > >
> > > Thanks ahead of time for any help,
> > > Ryan
> > >
> > >
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