ggplot2:如何从多行方面标签左对齐文本？

Question

我正在使用facet_grid()来显示一些数据,并且我有多个文本行的标签(它们包含"\n"字符).

require(ggplot2)

#Generate example data
set.seed(3)
df = data.frame(facet_label_text = rep(c("Label A",
                                         "Label B\nvery long label",
                                         "Label C\nshort",
                                         "Label D"),
                                       each = 5),
                time = rep(c(0, 4, 8, 12, 16), times = 4),
                value = runif(20, min=0, max=100))

#Plot test data
ggplot(df, aes(x = time, y = value)) +
    geom_line() +
    facet_grid(facet_label_text ~ .) +
    theme(strip.text.y = element_text(angle = 0, hjust = 0))

因此,通过使用hjust = 0参数,我可以将facet标签文本作为一个单元进行左对齐.

我想做的是左对齐每个单独的文本行.因此,"标签B"和"非常长的标签"都沿着左侧对齐,而不是相对于彼此居中(对于"标签C"和"短"而言也是如此).这可能在ggplot2中吗？在此先感谢您的帮助.

Answer 1

使用网格grid.gedit功能编辑条带非常简单.

library(ggplot2)  # v2.1.0
library(grid)

# Your data
set.seed(3)
df = data.frame(facet_label_text = rep(c("Label A",
                                         "Label B\nvery long label",
                                         "Label C\nshort",
                                         "Label D"), 
                                       each = 5),
                time = rep(c(0, 4, 8, 12, 16), times = 4),
                value = runif(20, min=0, max=100))

# Your plot
p = ggplot(df, aes(x = time, y = value)) +
    geom_line() +
    facet_grid(facet_label_text ~ .) +
    theme(strip.text.y = element_text(angle = 0, hjust = 0))
p

# Get a list of grobs in the plot
grid.ls(grid.force())  

# It looks like we need the GRID.text grobs.
# But some care is needed:
# There are GRID.text grobs that are children of the strips;
# but also there are GRID.text grobs that are children of the axes.
# Therefore, a gPath should be set up 
# to get to the GRID.text grobs in the strips

# The edit
grid.gedit(gPath("GRID.stripGrob", "GRID.text"),  
         just = "left", x = unit(0, "npc"))

或者,还有一些代码行可以使用grob对象(代替上面的屏幕编辑):

# Get the ggplot grob
gp = ggplotGrob(p)
grid.ls(grid.force(gp))

# Edit the grob
gp = editGrob(grid.force(gp), gPath("GRID.stripGrob", "GRID.text"), grep = TRUE, global = TRUE,
          just = "left", x = unit(0, "npc"))

# Draw it
grid.newpage()
grid.draw(gp)

Answer 2

在有人提供真正的解决方案之前,这里有一个黑客:在标签中添加空格以获得您想要的理由.

require(ggplot2)

#Generate example data
set.seed(3)
df = data.frame(facet_label_text = rep(c("Label A",
                                         "Label B           \nvery long label",
                                         "Label C\nshort     ",
                                         "Label D"),
                                       each = 5),
                time = rep(c(0, 4, 8, 12, 16), times = 4),
                value = runif(20, min=0, max=100))

#Plot test data
ggplot(df, aes(x = time, y = value)) +
  geom_line() +
  facet_grid(facet_label_text ~ .) +
  theme(strip.text.y = element_text(angle = 0, hjust = 0))

Answer 3

可能有更简洁的方法来做到这一点,但我没有找到一种方法在ggplot2中这样做.该padwrap功能可以更通用,因为它基本上只是你要求的.为了正确理由,我必须使用单倍间距字体.

# Wrap text with embedded newlines: space padded and lef justified.
# There may be a cleaner way to do this but this works on the one
# example.  If using for ggplot2 plots, make the font `family`
# a monospaced font (e.g. 'Courier')
padwrap <- function(x) {
    # Operates on one string
    padwrap_str <- function(s) {
        sres    <- strsplit(s, "\n")
        max_len <- max(nchar(sres[[1]]))
        paste( sprintf(paste0('%-', max_len, 's'), sres[[1]]), collapse = "\n" )
    }
    # Applys 'padwrap' to a vector of strings
    unlist(lapply(x, padwrap_str))
}

require(ggplot2)

facet_label_text = rep(c("Label A",
                         "Label B\nvery long label",
                         "Label C\nshort",
                         "Label D"), 5)
new_facet_label_text <- padwrap(facet_label_text)

#Generate example data
set.seed(3)
df = data.frame(facet_label_text = new_facet_label_text,
                time = rep(c(0, 4, 8, 12, 16), times = 4),
                value = runif(20, min=0, max=100))

#Plot test data
ggplot(df, aes(x = time, y = value)) +
    geom_line() +
    facet_grid(facet_label_text ~ .) +
    theme(strip.text.y = element_text(angle = 0, hjust = 0, family = 'Courier'))

条带文本在下图中左对齐