{"id":16101,"date":"2020-05-08T10:43:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T09:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/?p=16101"},"modified":"2020-05-08T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T09:43:11","slug":"how-to-easily-set-axis-ticks-number-for-numeric-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/blog\/how-to-easily-set-axis-ticks-number-for-numeric-variables\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Easily Set Axis Ticks Number for Numeric Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rdoc\">\n<pre class=\"r\"><code>library(ggpubr)\r\n\r\n# Create a basic plot\r\np &lt;- ggscatter(mtcars, x = \"wt\", y = \"mpg\")\r\np<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/FVJE3px.png\" alt=\"plot of chunk set-axis-ticks-number\" \/><\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code># Increase the number of ticks\r\np +\r\n scale_x_continuous(breaks = get_breaks(n = 10)) +\r\n scale_y_continuous(breaks = get_breaks(n = 10))<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XF4Au12.png\" alt=\"plot of chunk set-axis-ticks-number\" \/><\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code># Set ticks according to a specific step, starting from 0\r\np + scale_x_continuous(\r\n  breaks = get_breaks(by = 1.5, from = 0),\r\n  limits =  c(0, 6)\r\n) +\r\n scale_y_continuous(\r\n  breaks = get_breaks(by = 10, from = 0),\r\n  limits = c(0, 40)\r\n  )<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/r3qEUal.png\" alt=\"plot of chunk set-axis-ticks-number\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>library(ggpubr) # Create a basic plot p &lt;- ggscatter(mtcars, x = &#8220;wt&#8221;, y = &#8220;mpg&#8221;) p # Increase the number of ticks p + scale_x_continuous(breaks = get_breaks(n = 10)) + [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rating_form_position":"","rating_results_position":"","mr_structured_data_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[343],"class_list":["post-16101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq","tag-ggpubr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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