Advanced text formatting in ggplot2, enables the rendering of complex formatted plot labels.
The ggtext package enables using (a limited subset of) Markdown and HTML syntax in ggplot2 plot labels.
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How to fix ggtext´s rendering of combining characters like Ě or Ö?
I have an issue with my labels using **ggtext**, if I use combining characters like ĚŠČŘŽ or ÖÜÄ, element_markdown() will add additional spaces/render whitespace behind my text. My code looks like this:…
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ggtext and element_markdown() expands horizontal spacing?
I am using ggtext's element_markdown to modify a subtitle, and to add color to one word, that is in a plot_annotation layer. My code is as follows:
p1 + p1 + plot_layout(nrow = 2, heights = c(4, 1.8)) +
plot_annotation(title = "The Rise of…
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ggplot: fonts not found and strange spacing (maybe related to macOS)
I am struggling to apply fonts in ggplot on macOS and need some help. Hopefully this will help others too as I've searched a lot and tried all sorts to no avail. Fonts that appear to be there are not recognised and then strange spacing happens…
Chris
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How to use LaTeX expression in textbox of ggplot
I have below ggplot :
library(ggplot2)
library(ggtext)
library(ggdist)
library(latex2exp)
set.seed(123)
DF <- rbind(data.frame('Label' = 'A', val = rnorm(200, 5)),
data.frame('Label' = 'B', val = rnorm(500, 10)))
ggplot(DF, aes(Label,…
Brian Smith
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ggplot2: How to dynamically wrap/resize/rescale x axis labels so they won't overlap
I'm trying to achieve a solution for wrapping x axis labels so they won't overlap. I know this question has been asked several times, and that there are some good answers. However, no solution that I've seen answers how to re-wrap the labels as the…
Emman
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Changing one character in axis tick labels to italic while keeping multiple lines
I have a geom_col from ggplot2 with labels for categorical axis ticks like below:
That plot was created with the following…
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Multipanel plots with spanning figure legend in R with ggtext and gridtext in R
I am close to achieving this multipanel plot with a spanning textgrob figure legend below. But I continue to get an unexpected amount of space between the figures and the figure legend. Attempt in the reprex below.
# Library…
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Cannot conditionally make axis labels bold in ggplot
I am trying to make select axis labels bold, based on a conditional from a different column. In the code below, if Signif equals 1, then the Predictor axis text should be bold. In addition, the segments should appear in the order of Values …
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troubleshooting fonts in ggtext/markdown labels
I'm trying to use ggtext::geom_richtext() to create bold/italic text (on Pop!OS [Ubuntu derivative] 22.04 with R-devel). I only get plain text (using PNG or PDF or using an on-screen X11/cairo device). The output all looks plain in every format. (I…
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How to add icons to ggplot captions and titles?
Right now I am trying to put icons in ggplot visualizations. To this end, I have checked a couple of tutorials on the web and when I run the following code example of Claus Wilke,
library(ggtext)
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(mtcars) +
aes(mpg, disp)…
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ggtext : element_markdown not working with position = "top"
I have a chart (simplified example below) where I want to put the x-axis at the top. The labels use element_markdown to include line breaks.
It all works fine until I add position = "top" which seems to stop the line break being applied. Do you…
Chris
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Reduce superscript font size ggplot2 R
I'm developing a script with ggplot2 and the package ggtext to produce some plots with superscripts next to the title that further are grouped in a reference table.
A simplified example of what I'm doing…
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R: add custom legend to ggplot
I have the following plot:
And would like to add a legend as follows:
This is the code I used to generate the plot:
library(data.table)
library(ggplot2)
blue <- "#4472C4"
green <- "#548235"
red <- "#C55A11"
redblood <- "#C00000"
DT <-…
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What formatting language does ggtext use to format text?
I am trying to display scientific notation on a ggplot2 axis in boldface, with the literal "Ax10^B" format, not "AeB" format that is the default of ggplot2. When this code is run
library(tidyverse)
library(ggtext)
ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy*10^9)) +…
Jordan Mandel
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Verify font availability in R
I have a font installed on my OS, so this code runs fine:
library(tidyverse)
library(extrafont)
iris %>% ggplot(aes(Sepal.Length,Sepal.Width, color = Species)) +
geom_point(size = 2) +
theme(
text = element_text(family = "Metropolis")
)
Let's…
Alexis
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