This tutorial teaches you how to color words in a ggplot title to match the data in the plot itself. This approach has two main benefits: Improves interpretation: Readers can understand the chart more quickly. Reduces clutter: It can eliminate the need for a separate color legend. We will use two R packages to accomplish… Continue reading How to Add matching colors to keywords in title text
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How to selectively add color to title text in ggplot2
In this tutorial, we will learn how to specify colors to selective words of title text in ggplot2. For example, if we had made a plot with ggplot2 and have title text to describe the plot, we will learn how to color certain words of the title not the whole title text. We will use… Continue reading How to selectively add color to title text in ggplot2
How to wrap long strip labels in facet_wrap
Do long strip labels in facet_wrap() break your ggplot2 plots? When labels are too long, they can become unreadable. This tutorial shows you how to automatically wrap them. You’ll learn to use a labeller function to control the width of your facet labels, keeping your visualizations clean and easy to read. Let us load tidyverse.… Continue reading How to wrap long strip labels in facet_wrap
How to Turn off “missing values have been dropped” warning message in ggplot2
In this post, we will learn how to turn off the “missing values” warning message from ggplot2, when making a scatterplot with data containing missing values. geom_point() in ggplot2 gives a warning when it drops missing values from from the dataset it is plotting. Here is example of the warning when geom_point() drops 2 data… Continue reading How to Turn off “missing values have been dropped” warning message in ggplot2
How to add arrow to x /y axis in ggplot2
In this tutorial, we will learn how to add arrows to both x and y axis in a plot made with ggplot2 in R. When we make a plot with ggplot2, it does not add arrows at the end of either x or y axis by default. Sometimes you might want to add arrows to… Continue reading How to add arrow to x /y axis in ggplot2