{"id":8369,"date":"2019-01-05T21:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/?p=8369"},"modified":"2019-12-25T11:06:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T09:06:03","slug":"how-to-set-ggplot-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/blog\/how-to-set-ggplot-breaks\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set GGPlot Breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"rdoc\">\n<p>In this article, you will learn how to set <strong>ggplot breaks<\/strong> for continuous x and y axes. The function <em>scale_x_continuous<\/em>() and <em>scale_y_continuous<\/em>() can be used for ggplot axis breaks settings.<\/p>\n<div class='dt-sc-hr-invisible-medium  '><\/div>\n<div class='dt-sc-ico-content type1'><div class='custom-icon' ><a href='https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/product\/ggplot2-essentials-for-great-data-visualization-in-r\/' target='_blank'><span class='fa fa-book'><\/span><\/a><\/div><h4><a href='https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/product\/ggplot2-essentials-for-great-data-visualization-in-r\/' target='_blank'> Related Book <\/a><\/h4>GGPlot2 Essentials for Great Data Visualization in R<\/div>\n<div class='dt-sc-hr-invisible-medium  '><\/div>\n<div id=\"prerequisites\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Prerequisites<\/h2>\n<p>Load the ggplot2 package and set the theme function <code>theme_classic()<\/code> as the default theme:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code>library(ggplot2)\r\ntheme_set(\r\n  theme_classic() + \r\n    theme(legend.position = \"top\")\r\n  )<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"basic-scatter-plots\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Basic scatter plots<\/h2>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code>sp &lt;- ggplot(cars, aes(x = speed, y = dist)) + \r\n  geom_point()\r\nsp<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/figures\/118-ggplot-breaks-scatter-plot-1.png\" width=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"change-axis-ticks-break-interval\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Change axis ticks break interval<\/h2>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code># Break y axis by a specified value\r\n# a tick mark is shown on every 50\r\nsp + scale_y_continuous(breaks=seq(0, 150, by = 50))\r\n\r\n# Tick marks can be spaced randomly\r\nsp + scale_y_continuous(breaks=c(0, 50, 65, 75, 150))<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/figures\/118-ggplot-breaks-change-axis-ticks-interval-1.png\" width=\"288\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/figures\/118-ggplot-breaks-change-axis-ticks-interval-2.png\" width=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"remove-breaks\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Remove breaks<\/h2>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code># Remove y tick mark labels and grid lines\r\nsp + scale_y_continuous(breaks=NULL)<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/figures\/118-ggplot-breaks-remove-breaks-1.png\" width=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end rdoc--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In this article, you will learn how to set ggplot breaks for continuous x and y axes. 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