Set margins in ggplot2 individually

Asked Apr 16 '19 at 07:55

Active Apr 16 '19 at 08:32

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I'm trying to create a ggplot2 style where the title, subtitle and the axis.text.y are all left aligned with 0 margin on the plot not on the y axis.

Then I want to have a different margin between the axis.text.y and the panel.grid, say 64px.

Can this be done in the theme() function?

library(ggplot2)
library(magrittr)

iris %>%
  ggplot(aes(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width,
             color = Species)) +
  geom_point() +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.position = 0) +
  labs(title = "The Sepal.Width vs. Sepeal.Length",
       subtitle = "The iris dataset",
       y = "")

Desired outcome:

edited Apr 16 '19 at 08:32

asked Apr 16 '19 at 07:55

Tdebeus

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I guess it's is a duplicate to [this one](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25401111/left-adjust-title-in-ggplot2-or-absolute-position-for-ggtitle). You just need to use `y = NULL` instead of `y = ""`. – pogibas Apr 16 '19 at 08:31
That doesn't work for the `title` and the `subtitle` – Tdebeus Apr 16 '19 at 08:35
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Check [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/47621310/1286528) – pogibas Apr 16 '19 at 08:45
Why is this so complicated? – Tdebeus Apr 16 '19 at 09:01
Is this a rhetorical question? I guess right now there's no easier solution to do that. – pogibas Apr 16 '19 at 10:02

Set margins in ggplot2 individually

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