I have produced a corrplot
plot that gives correlation between variables. I now simply want to add a subtitle/caption to note things about the variables, at the bottom of the plot. However, because it's not like ggplot
, I cannot seem to make the label appear. I have used the argument main =
to produce a title, but sub =
does not produce anything.
Is it possible to add a subtitle to a corrplot
rendering? If not, is there a way to take the corrplot
output and put it into another object that would allow me to add a caption/subtitle?
My plot looks like this:
And my code is this:
correlation_plot <- corrplot(corr = cortable, method = "number", main = "Title", sub = "sub", type = "full", number.cex=0.70)
where cortable
is a generic dataframe of observations for columns A-E.
Also, is there a way to stop the Title from being cut off at the top? Is that cutoff whats actually preventing me from seeing a subtitle too?
The problem is that corrplot
changes the default margins and so cuts off both the title and subtitle.
library(corrplot)
corrplot(cor(iris[,1:4]), main = "title", sub="subtitle")
You can do better, by specifying a margin more like the defaults
corrplot(cor(iris[,1:4]), main = "title", sub="subtitle", mar=c(5,4,4,2))
But to get a really good result, specify a modest margin and then add the title and subtitle separately using title
corrplot(cor(iris[,1:4]), mar=c(1,1,2,1))
title(main="title", sub="subtitle")
Experiment with the margin size to get a placement that looks good for your corrplot.