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Go to the menu in RStudio and click on Tools and then Global Options. Select the Appearance tab on the left. Again buried in the middle of things is the font size. Change this to 14 or 16 to start with and see what it looks like.
To increase the X-axis labels font size using ggplot2, we can use axis. text. x argument of theme function where we can define the text size for axis element. This might be required when we want viewers to critically examine the X-axis labels and especially in situations when we change the scale for X-axis.
How can I change the default font size in ggplot2? Set base_size in the theme you're using, which is theme_gray() by default. The base font size is 11 pts by default. You can change it with the base_size argument in the theme you're using.
To change the axis scales on a plot in base R Language, we can use the xlim() and ylim() functions. The xlim() and ylim() functions are convenience functions that set the limit of the x-axis and y-axis respectively.
Use theme():
d <- data.frame(x=gl(10, 1, 10, labels=paste("long text label ", letters[1:10])), y=rnorm(10))
ggplot(d, aes(x=x, y=y)) + geom_point() +
theme(text = element_text(size=20),
axis.text.x = element_text(angle=90, hjust=1))
#vjust adjust the vertical justification of the labels, which is often useful
There's lots of good information about how to format your ggplots here. You can see a full list of parameters you can modify (basically, all of them) using ?theme.
Ditto @Drew Steen on the use of theme(). Here are common theme attributes for axis text and titles.
ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(cyl), y = mpg))+
geom_point()+
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(color = "grey20", size = 20, angle = 90, hjust = .5, vjust = .5, face = "plain"),
axis.text.y = element_text(color = "grey20", size = 12, angle = 0, hjust = 1, vjust = 0, face = "plain"),
axis.title.x = element_text(color = "grey20", size = 12, angle = 0, hjust = .5, vjust = 0, face = "plain"),
axis.title.y = element_text(color = "grey20", size = 12, angle = 90, hjust = .5, vjust = .5, face = "plain"))
Adding to previous solutions, you can also specify the font size relative to the base_size included in themes such as theme_bw() (where base_size is 11) using the rel() function.
For example:
ggplot(mtcars, aes(disp, mpg)) +
geom_point() +
theme_bw() +
theme(axis.text.x=element_text(size=rel(0.5), angle=90))
Use theme():
d <- data.frame(x=gl(10, 1, 10, labels=paste("long text label ", letters[1:10])), y=rnorm(10))
ggplot(d, aes(x=x, y=y)) + geom_point() +
theme(text = element_text(size=20))
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