ggplot increasing the distance between axis labels and axis ticks

Question

I've exhausted the documentation and previous questions on Stackoverflow but I can't seem to overcome this simple challenge.

df <- read_csv("book1.csv")

p <- ggplot(data = df, aes(x = xData, y = yData, color = colorData)) +
  geom_point(aes(text = paste("Contact:", Contact, "Number:", Number,sep="\n")), size = 1) +
  theme(legend.text=element_text(size=rel(0.6))) +
  facet_wrap(~ colorData, nrow = 4, ncol = 2) +
  xlim(0, 10) +   ylim(0, 10) + 
  labs = (x = "\nxData", y = "yData\n") 

ggplotly(p)

At the moment, my x and y labels sit on top of the ticks on all facets and I wish to extend the axis labels away from the ticks.

So far I've tried:

labs = (x = "\nxData", y = "yData\n")

xlab("\nxData") + ylab("yData\n")

theme(axis.title.x = element_text(margin = margin(t = 9, r = 0, b = 0, l = 0)))+
theme(axis.title.y = element_text(margin = margin(t = 0, r = 9, b = 0, l = 0)))

theme(axis.title.x = element_text(vjust=-0.5))+
theme(axis.title.y = element_text(hjust=-0.5))

theme(axis.title.x.bottom = element_text(margin = margin(t = 2, unit = "in")))+
theme(axis.title.y.left = element_text(margin = margin(r = 2, unit = "in")))

Nothing seems to work here. Any suggestions welcomed.

EDIT: data in copy-pasteable format:

df <- tibble::tribble(
  ~xData, ~yData, ~colorData, ~Contact, ~Number,
  3.4,    6.7,   "Dept 1",   "John",    143L,
  4.5,    7.7,   "Dept 2",   "Paul",    353L,
  6.7,    8.7,   "Dept 3",   "Mary",    232L,
  8.9,    9.9,   "Dept 4",  "Steve",    235L,
  3.4,     10,   "Dept 5",   "Bill",    124L,
  5.6,    5.4,   "Dept 6",   "Jess",    421L,
  7.6,    4.5,   "Dept 7",  "Peter",    212L
)

So it appears this may be an issue caused when calling ggploty(p) for an interactive plot but not for a regular plot.

Answer 1

just too long for a comment - no real answer.

Here to show how this could look like.

Try to run this code in your session and see if you have the same result. If not, then you have some weird global settings set. I'd then restart R, start a new session, and possibly also update all your packages.

library(tidyverse)
ggplot(data = mtcars) +
  geom_point(aes(mpg, disp)) +
  facet_wrap(~ carb, nrow = 4, ncol = 2) +
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(margin = margin(t = 1, unit = "in"))) 

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