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How to set the alignment of labels in horizontal bar plot to left in R?
When we create a horizontal bar plot using ggplot2 package, the labels of the categorical variable are aligned to the right-side of the axis and if the size of these labels are different then it looks a little ambiguous. Therefore, we might want to set the alignment of the labels to left-side and this can be done by using theme function of ggplot2 package.
Example
Consider the below data frame:
> df<-data.frame(x,y) > df
Output
x y 1 India 14 2 UK 15 3 Russia 12 4 United States of America 18
Loading ggplot2 package and creating a horizontal bar plot:
Example
> library(ggplot2) > ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_bar(stat="identity")+coord_flip()
Output:
Creating the horizontal bar plot with categorical variable labels aligned to left-side:
Example
> ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_bar(stat="identity")+coord_flip()+theme(axis.text.y=element_text(hjust=0))
Output:
Updated on: 06-Nov-2020
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