[R] ggplot2: setting martin

[Jeff Newmiller]

perhaps you should be in communication with the ggplot developers. The ggplot mailing list would be an appropriate place to begin.
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Frans Marcelissen <fransiepansiekevertje at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>Hi Ista,
>Your suggestion is not the solution I need. My problem is that in this
>way each plot gets another margin. I try to create a presentation with
>about 10 plots.The presentation does'nt look well if each plot has
>another marging. Is there way to set the margin manually?
>Frans
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>Van: Ista Zahn [mailto:istazahn at gmail.com] 
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>Verzonden: zaterdag 22 december 2012 0:47
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>Aan: Frans Marcelissen
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>CC: R-help at r-project.org
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>Onderwerp: Re: [R] ggplot2: setting martin
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>Well, the margin
>is being set large enough to accommodate 
>the labels.
>
>So if you want
>narrower margins just shorten the labels:
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> 
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>library(stringr)
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>P +
>scale_x_discrete(labels = function(x) str_wrap(x, width=12))
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> 
>
>HTH,
>
>Ista
>
>On Fri, Dec 21,
>2012 at 5:35 PM, Frans Marcelissen <frans.marcelissen at digipsy.nl>
>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 
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>> But
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>> 
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>>
>P<-ggplot()+geom_bar(aes(c("short label1","short
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>label2"),runif(2)))+coord_flip()
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>>
>P<-creates a plot with another margin as
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>> 
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>ggplot()+geom_bar(aes(c("very very very very long label1","short
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>label2"),runif(2)))+coord_flip()
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>> 
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>> In the
>standard plot system margins can be set with par(mar=c(...)), 
>
>> but this
>doesn't work in ggplot2
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>> 
>
>> I thought I
>could do it with plot.margin, but
>
>> 
>
>>
>p+theme(plot.margin= unit(c(0, 0, 0,3), "cm"))
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>> 
>
>> doesn't
>work,it adds extra, external margins.
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>> 
>
>> Does anyone
>know a solution?
>
>> 
>
>> Thanks
>
>> 
>
>> Frans
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