Change the position of the strip label in ggplot from the top to the bottom?

Question

我知道这不是一个数据可视化的问题，但老板要求它，所以我需要弄清楚是否可能。

Answer 1

An answer for those searching in 2016.

As of ggplot2 2.0, the switch argument will do this for facet_grid or facet_wrap :

By default, the labels are displayed on the top and right of the plot. If "x", the top labels will be displayed to the bottom. If "y", the right-hand side labels will be displayed to the left. Can also be set to "both".

ggplot(...) + ... + facet_grid(facets, switch="both")

As of ggplot2 2.2.0 ,

Strips can now be freely positioned in facet_wrap() using the strip.position argument (deprecates switch ).

Current docs, are still at 2.1, but strip.position is documented on the dev docs.

By default, the labels are displayed on the top of the plot. Using strip.position it is possible to place the labels on either of the four sides by setting strip.position = c("top", "bottom", "left", "right")

ggplot(...) + ... + facet_wrap(facets, strip.position="right")

Answer 2

you can now use facet_wrap(~var, strip.position = "bottom") , though for some reason this results in the labels being located above the axis tick mark labels, rather than below (which I think would make more sense), as you can see from my screenshot of a small portion of my graph

If you want to have the label below, you have do to this

ggplot(zzz, aes(x = c1, y = c2)) +
  facet_wrap(~ gp, scales = "free", nrow = 3, strip.position = "bottom") +
  geom_point() +
  theme(
    aspect.ratio = 1,
    strip.background = element_blank(),
    strip.placement = "outside"
  )

As seen here: https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues/2622

Answer 3

The answer is yes!

theme(strip.text=element_text(vjust=-10))

The number -10 is determined by the scale and units you're using in your plot.

Answer 4

To follow on the use of theme:

theme(strip.text=element_text(vjust=-10))

Be sure your labels all have the same number of carriage returns.

Label /n Facet /n One will vjust at a different rate than Label /n Facet Two .