Aligning title, subtitle and caption for horizontal ggplot barchart
This question refers to this github tidyverse/ggplot2 solved issue: https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues/3252
And it is implemented in ggplot2 (development version): https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/blob/15263f7580d6b5100989f7c1da5d2f5255e480f9/NEWS.md
Themes have gained two new parameters, plot.title.position and plot.caption.position, that can be used to customize how plot title/subtitle and plot caption are positioned relative to the overall plot (@clauswilke, #3252).
To follow your example as a reprex:
# First install the development version from GitHub:
#install.packages("devtools") #If required
#devtools::install_github("tidyverse/ggplot2")
library(ggplot2)
packageVersion("ggplot2")
#> [1] '3.2.1.9000'
df <- data.frame(type=factor(c("Brooklyn","Manhatten and\n Queens")),
value=c(15,30))
ggplot(df, aes(x=type, y=value)) +
geom_bar(stat='identity') +
coord_flip() +
labs(title = "This is a nice title",
subtitle = "A subtitle",
caption = "We even have a caption. A very long one indeed.") +
theme(plot.caption = element_text(hjust = 0, face= "italic"), #Default is hjust=1
plot.title.position = "plot", #NEW parameter. Apply for subtitle too.
plot.caption.position = "plot") #NEW parameter
Created on 2019-09-04 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
While you could edit those three grobs, you can also just:
library(gridExtra)
library(grid)
grid.arrange(
textGrob("This is a nice title",
gp=gpar(fontsize=16, col="#2b2b2b"),
x=unit(0.005, "npc"), just=c("left", "bottom")),
textGrob("A subtitle",
gp=gpar(fontsize=12, col="#2b2b2b"),
x=unit(0.005, "npc"), just=c("left", "bottom")),
ggplot(df, aes(x=type, y=value)) +
geom_bar(stat='identity') +
coord_flip() +
theme(axis.title=element_blank()),
textGrob("We even have a caption. A very long one indeed.",
gp=gpar(fontsize=9, col="#2b2b2b"),
x=unit(0.005, "npc"), just=c("left", "bottom")),
ncol=1,
heights=c(0.075, 0.025, 0.85, 0.05)
)
Make a wrapper for it, put it in a personal pkg. Boom. Done.
library(ggplot2)
library(gridExtra)
library(grid)
df <- data.frame(type=factor(c("Brooklyn","Manhatten and\n Queens")), value=c(15,30))
ggplot(df, aes(x=type, y=value)) +
geom_bar(stat='identity') +
coord_flip() +
theme(axis.title=element_blank()) +
theme(plot.margin=margin(l=0, t=5, b=5))-> gg
flush_plot <- function(x, title, subtitle, caption) {
tg <- function(label, ...) {
textGrob(label, x=unit(0, "npc"), just=c("left", "bottom"),
gp=do.call(gpar, as.list(substitute(list(...)))[-1L])) }
grid.arrange(
tg(title, fontsize=16, col="#2b2b2b"),
tg(subtitle, fontsize=12, col="#2b2b2b"), x,
tg(caption, fontsize=9, col="#2b2b2b"),
ncol=1, heights=c(0.075, 0.025, 0.85, 0.05)
)
}
flush_plot(gg, "This is a nice title", "A subtitle",
"We even have a caption. A very long one indeed.")