Spacing between labels and axis title

[thomas]

Hi,

why is the spacing between the labels and the axis title so tiny? If
you look at the figure, "Method" and "fobr" are almost overlapping.
Is this on purpose?
How could one adjust it?

Figure: http://bit.ly/exxmU7 (link to image shack)
Code: http://pastebin.com/WEUwgtKQ

thank you very much,
Thomas

[Roy Francis Mathew]

I have a same question. The labels are almost always touching the axis title in all my plots.
Is it possible to change it manually? It should be ideally moved a bit away by default in the next version.

Regards
Roy Mathew Francis
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[Brandon Hurr]

Actually, I've noticed that the space between my axis titles and axis labels has seemed to lessen in recent plots. I wonder if it's something that's been changed in the newest version. 

Takahashi or Hadley would know probably. 

Does setting the vjust manually change your plot? 

plot + opts(axis.title.x = theme_text(vjust = 0))

Try 0 and 1 to see if it makes a difference, I always get confused which way is which... 

Brandon

[Thomas Kern]

I thought that there might be an update out, so i updated ggplot to the
most recent version a week ago (version 0.8.9). The update had no effect
though.

Yes, vjust actually works. 0 it is.

Thanks,
Thomas
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> Brandon Hurr <mailto:brando...@gmail.com>
> 16 February 2011 9:54 PM

[Dennis Murphy]

Hi:

What I've started doing is to insert a line of space before the x-axis label and/or after the y-axis label, as in

labs(x ='\nThis is my x-label', y = 'This is my y-label\n')

It's Q & D, but it works for me at the moment.

HTH,
Dennis