Substitution for deprecated axis.ticks.margin in ggplot2 2.0

Question

When using axis.ticks.margin in ggplot2 2.0, I got a Warning message:

axis.ticks.margin is deprecated. Please set margin property of axis.text instead.

I thought I could try axis.text.margin but I got another warning saying it was an invalid function. The release notes say:

The theme setting axis.ticks.margin has been deprecated: now use the margin property of axis.ticks.

So where is the margin setting now?

Answer 1

See the ggplot 2.0 doc on theme:

axis.text

tick labels along axes (element_text; inherits from text)

This should be in an element_text element. Its doc points to function margin. Something along those lines should work:

+ theme(axis.text.x = element_text(margin=margin(5,5,10,5,"pt")),
        axis.text.y = element_text(margin=margin(5,5,10,5,"pt")))