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Frans Marcelissen <fransiepansiekever...@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 > > > > >-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > >Van: Ista Zahn [mailto:istaz...@gmail.com] > >Verzonden: zaterdag 22 december 2012 0:47 > >Aan: Frans Marcelissen > >CC: R-help@r-project.org > >Onderwerp: Re: [R] ggplot2: setting martin > > > >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.marcelis...@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 > >> >> > >> > >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >> > >> >______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list > >> 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 >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 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.