[R] ggplot2: setting martin

[Ista Zahn]

Well, the margin is being set large enough to accommodate  the labels.
So if you want narrower margins just shorten the labels:

library(stringr)
P + scale_x_discrete(labels = function(x) str_wrap(x, width=12))


HTH,
Ista
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Frans Marcelissen
<frans.marcelissen at digipsy.nl> wrote:
> Is it possible to set the margin in ggplot2 to a fixed size? I create many
> plots, and I want them to look the same.
>
> Especially I want them to have the same left margin.
>
> But
>
> P<-ggplot()+geom_bar(aes(c("short label1","short
> label2"),runif(2)))+coord_flip()
>
> P<-creates a plot with another margin as
>
> ggplot()+geom_bar(aes(c("very very very very long label1","short
> label2"),runif(2)))+coord_flip()
>
>
>
> In the standard plot system margins can be set with par(mar=c(...)), but
> this doesn't work in ggplot2
>
> I thought I could do it with plot.margin, but
>
> p+theme(plot.margin= unit(c(0, 0, 0,3), "cm"))
>
> doesn't work,it adds extra, external margins.
>
> Does anyone know a solution?
>
> Thanks
>
> Frans
>
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