I'm trying to annotate the highest value in each facet of a graph.
I can't figure out how to remove extra space at the bottom of the y axis without clipping the text above the highest value.
A) Is there a non-symmetrical version of scale_y_continuous(expand=c(0,0))
?
B) Or, is there a way to make ggplot include text as part of the graph range?
# a simple dataset
count <- 40
data <- data.frame(
category = sample(LETTERS[1:3], count, TRUE),
x = rnorm(count),
y = abs(rnorm(count))
)
# find the highest value in each category
require(plyr)
data <- data[order(-data$y),]
topValues <- ddply(data, .(category), head, 1)
require(ggplot2)
ggplot(data) +
geom_line(aes(x=x, y=y)) +
geom_text(data=topValues, aes(x=x, y=y, label=y)) + # label the highest y value
# add vjust=-1 to put text above point if possible
facet_grid(category ~ ., scale="free") +
scale_x_continuous(expand=c(0,0)) +
scale_y_continuous(expand=c(0,0))
The answer comes thanks to baptiste.
Just add this call to the plot to make a blank point at the top of the text:
geom_blank(data=topValues, aes(x=x, y=y*1.1, label=y))
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