如何旋转 ggplot2 中的轴标签？

Question

I have the following graph that I generated using ggplot2

I had finalPlot as the ggplot object. To add labels I used

finalPlot + stat_bin() + scale_x_continuous('Solution Cost') + scale_y_continuous('Number of Solutions')`

How can I change the orientation of the y axis label to make it appear horizontal and if possible span it across two lines like

Number of
Solutions

Answer 1

The syntax has changed in recent versions of ggplot2; if you try the above answer, you'll get

Error: Use 'theme' instead. (Defunct; last used in version 0.9.1)

These days you should use

finalPlot + ylab("Number of\nSolutions") + theme(axis.title.y = element_text(angle=0))

Answer 2

For the rotation angle of the axis text you need to use element_text() . See this post on SO for some examples. For spacing over two lines I would add a "\n" on the location in the string where you want to put the newline.

This will set the correct orientation for the y axis text and force a line break:

finalPlot + ylab("Number of\nSolutions") + 
    theme(axis.title.y = element_text(angle = 0))