vjust was always a hack that I never thought should work. The margins parameter is the correct way to solve this problem as of ggplot2 2.0.0.
Hadley On Tuesday, December 22, 2015, Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) <nord...@dshs.wa.gov> wrote: > 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 <javascript:;>] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 10:48 AM > > To: Nordlund, Dan (DSHS/RDA) > > Cc: r-help@r-project.org <javascript:;> > > 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 <javascript:;>> 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 <javascript:;>] On > Behalf Of Ryan > > > Utz > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 10:00 AM > > > To: r-help@r-project.org <javascript:;> > > > 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 <javascript:;> 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 <javascript:;> 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 <javascript:;> 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. > -- http://had.co.nz/ [[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.