I would like to automatically wrap my labels in ggplot2, i.e. insert line breaks of long labels. Here is written how to write a function (1) for it, but sadly I do not know where to put labeller=label_wrap
in my code (2).
(1) function by hadley
label_wrap <- function(variable, value) {
lapply(strwrap(as.character(value), width=25, simplify=FALSE),
paste, collapse="\n")
}
(2) code example
df = data.frame(x = c("label", "long label", "very, very long label"),
y = c(10, 15, 20))
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + geom_bar(stat="identity")
I'd like to wrap some of the longer labels here.
You don't need the label_wrap
function. Instead use the str_wrap
function from the stringr
package.
You do not provide your df
data frame, so I create a simple data frame, one that contains your labels. Then, apply the str_wrap
function to the labels.
library(ggplot2)
library(stringr)
df = data.frame(x = c("label", "long label", "very, very long label"),
y = c(10, 15, 20))
df
df$newx = str_wrap(df$x, width = 10)
df
Now to apply the labels to a ggplot chart: The first chart uses the original labels; the second chart uses the modified labels; and for the third chart, the labels are modified in the call to ggplot.
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
xlab("") + ylab("Number of Participants") +
geom_bar(stat = "identity")
ggplot(df, aes(newx, y)) +
xlab("") + ylab("Number of Participants") +
geom_bar(stat = "identity")
ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
xlab("") + ylab("Number of Participants") +
geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
scale_x_discrete(labels = function(x) str_wrap(x, width = 10))