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POggplot2 customized theme: axis title direction issue
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copied!<p>I have problem with my customized ggplot2 theme. Within the theme I customized so that all text will have angle=0, this is a required option when describing the theme. But then by y-axis label is also directed horizontally, whereas I would like to have it at angle=90 because it doesn't fit in the plot. My code for the custom theme is:</p> <pre><code>windowsFonts(Courier=windowsFont("Courier")) my_theme<-function (base_size = 12, base_family = "") { theme(text = element_text(size = base_size, family = "Courier", face = "plain", colour = "black", hjust = 0.5, vjust = 0.5, angle = 0, lineheight = 0.9), axis.text = element_text(size = rel(0.8)), axis.ticks = element_line(colour = "black"), axis.title.y = element_text(vjust=0.1,angle=90), legend.key = element_rect(colour = "grey80"), plot.title = element_text(size = rel(2), colour = "blue",face="bold"), legend.title = element_text(size = rel(1), colour = "blue"), panel.background = element_rect(fill = "white",colour = NA), panel.border = element_rect(fill = NA, colour = "grey50"), panel.grid.major = element_line(colour = "grey50", size = 0.33,linetype="dashed"), panel.grid.minor = element_blank(), strip.background = element_rect(fill = "grey80", colour = "grey50"), strip.background = element_rect(fill = "grey80", colour = "grey50")) } </code></pre> <p>Here I add axis.title.y=element_text(vjust=0.1,angle=90), but when I draw the plot is still at angle=0. Then I added it manually again:</p> <pre><code>p <- ggplot(data, aes(x=variable)) p + geom_histogram()+ labs(title = "Plot title",x = "X title", y="Y title")+ my_theme()+theme(axis.title.y=element_text(angle=90)) </code></pre> <p>But still no luck. When I draw the plot without my theme everything is ok, so I guess it's the "angle" option at text=element_text(...) that fixing the angle for any text in the plot. Any options how I can make y-axis title rotate while using my theme? Any suggestions is highly appreciated :)</p> <p>UPD: example using diamonds db from ggplot2 package: Head of the dataset:</p> <pre><code> carat price color clarity 1 0.23 326 E SI2 2 0.21 326 E SI1 3 0.23 327 E VS1 4 0.29 334 I VS2 5 0.31 335 J SI2 6 0.24 336 J VVS2 7 0.24 336 I VVS1 8 0.26 337 H SI1 9 0.22 337 E VS2 10 0.23 338 H VS1 </code></pre> <p>As it seen, the plot doesn't show complete title as it cropped in the leftside</p> <pre><code>data(diamonds) p <- ggplot(data=diamonds, aes(x=clarity, y=price, fill=clarity)) p+geom_bar(width=.7, stat="identity") + + guides(fill=FALSE)+my_theme()+theme( + axis.title.y=element_text(angle=90))+ + xlab("X title")+ylab("Y title")+ + ggtitle("The big title") </code></pre> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/stmdk.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

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