Ista, You are correct, I was not at the latest release of ggplot2. I updated to the latest version and am now seeing the same result as you and the OP. So it does look like an issue with the latest version of ggplot2.
Dan Daniel Nordlund, PhD Research and Data Analysis Division Services & Enterprise Support Administration Washington State Department of Social and Health Services > -----Original Message----- > From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istaz...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 10:48 AM > To: Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R] vjust unresponsive (ggplot2) > > Hi Dan, > > Chances are that you haven't yet upgraded to ggplot2 version 2.0. unit (as > well as arrow and alpha) are now re-exported from ggplot2. > > Using the latest release I also see that vjust doesn't seem to do anything. > > Best, > Ista > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) > <nord...@dshs.wa.gov> wrote: > > Are you sure it is not working for you? Your example code did not work for > me at all until I removed the plot .margin parameter (unit wasn't > recognized). Once I did that hjust and vjust worked as expected. However, > values between .1 and .9 for vjust don't really move the axis title very much > so it may not be real noticeable. Try a value like 2 or 3, just to make sure > you > easily see the change in position before concluding that nothing is > happening. > > > > Dan > > > > Daniel Nordlund, PhD > > Research and Data Analysis Division > > Services & Enterprise Support Administration Washington State > > Department of Social and Health Services > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Ryan > > Utz > > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 10:00 AM > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] vjust unresponsive (ggplot2) > > > > Hi all, > > > > I cannot for the life of me get my axis titles to adjust vertically in a > > ggplot. > I've seen several posts about this and have tried everything: > > keeping vjust within 0 and 1, adjusting the margins, etc. hjust is behaving > just as it should but vjust just mocks me in silence. No error message is > produced. > > > > Here's a sample code: > > > > x=data.frame(sample(1:10)) > > x[,2]=sample(1:10) > > > > ggplot(data=x,aes(x=V2,y=V2))+theme(axis.title.y=element_text(vjust=.1 > > ,hjust=0.6), > > plot.margin=unit(c(1,1,2,2),'cm')) > > > > No matter what I put into vjust, nothing happens. Am I missing something > obvious?? > > > > Thanks ahead of time for any help, > > Ryan > > > > > > -- > > > > Ryan Utz, Ph.D. > > Assistant professor of water resources > > *chatham**UNIVERSITY* > > Home/Cell: (724) 272-7769 > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
