avoid scientific notation x axis ggplot

Question

This:

ggplot(Data, aes(x = Bla), bins = 30, labels = TRUE, format(x, scientific = FALSE)) +
    geom_histogram()

does not work. I want to suppress the scientific notation (e.g. 1.0e+07). Any ideas? Thanks!

You can see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11610377/how-do-i-change-the-formatting-of-numbers-on-an-axis-with-ggplot#11611825 The idea being that you can use the `scales` package to reformat the labels of your axes. — Rekyt, Oct 11 '18 at 11:04
Thanks @AntoniosK it does the trick - if ok please post answer — cs0815, Oct 11 '18 at 11:26

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '18 at 12:20

10

You can use options(scipen = 999) before you plot.

This will disable scientific notation in general and not only in your x-axis.

answered Oct 11 '18 at 12:20

AntoniosK

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered May 16 '22 at 06:55

There are a couple of options apart from options(scipen = 999) which you may want to avoid if you don't want set this for all charts.

ggplot(Data, aes(x = Bla), bins = 30) +
  geom_histogram() +
  scale_x_continuous(labels = ~ format(.x, scientific = FALSE))

or

ggplot(Data, aes(x = Bla), bins = 30) +
  geom_histogram() +
  scale_x_continuous(labels = scales::comma)

Instead of scales::comma, the scales packages also offers

which are handy if you have financial data or dates.

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