How to extract axes labels for the plot drawn using ggplot2 in R?

When we create a plot using ggplot2, the axes labels are automatically generated for both the axes. We might want to use those axes labels for report writing or some other purpose, therefore, extraction of those labels for a plot created by using ggplot2 package can be found by using the ggplot_build function as shown in the below example but we need to save the plot in an object.

Consider the below data frame −

Example

 Live Demo

x<-rnorm(20)
y<-rnorm(20,5,0.32)
df<-data.frame(x,y)
df

Output

        x          y
1  -0.48260000   5.306990
2   1.46738002   5.065480
3  -0.41960276   4.833763
4   1.13728029   4.927692
5  -0.58233296   4.789553
6  -1.33506461   4.752065
7  -0.15042591   4.672583
8  -0.14903138   4.671353
9   1.00647384   5.090690
10 -0.18414152   4.815529
11 -2.20077514   4.353975
12  1.00566656   5.050006
13  0.14784372   5.067741
14  1.35535140   4.858750
15 -0.59944199   5.457906
16 -0.95290747   4.994523
17 -2.12832109   5.348286
18 -1.63202006   5.100371
19  0.07918045   4.869089
20 -1.23168746   4.617075

Loading ggplot2 package and creating scatterplot between x and y −

Example

library(ggplot2)
p<-ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_point()
p

Output

ggplot_build(p)$layout$panel_params[[1]]$y$get_labels()

[1] NA "4.50" "4.75" "5.00" "5.25" "5.50"

ggplot_build(p)$layout$panel_params[[1]]$x$get_labels()

[1] "-2" "-1" "0" "1" NA

Nizamuddin Siddiqui

Updated on 08-Feb-2021 06:38:19

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