how to change x axis labels in ggplot

Asked Jan 11 '19 at 19:06

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trying to change the x axis labels but when I run the part of the code that's #'d out, it gets rid of all the values on the axis, rather than replacing them with the labels I indicated.

median_income %>% ggplot(aes(y = estimate, x = name, color = sex)) +
  geom_point(size = 3) +
  geom_path(aes(group = name), size = .5, color = "gray65") +
  theme_din(xgrid = T, ygrid = F) +
  scale_color_manual(values = c("#D9CFE4", "#766A84")) +
  labs(y = "Median income ($)", x = NULL, title = "Median indiviual earnings", subtitle = "Full-time, year-round workers, 2017") +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank()) +
  #scale_y_discrete(labels = c("50k", "100k", "150k", "200k")) +
  coord_flip()

instead of no axis, I want the values in labels = c() to become my axis labels.

sample data:

name <- c("Darien", "Stratford", "Darien", "Stratford")
sex <- c("male", "male", "female", "female")
estimate <- c(217813, 63105, 87946, 50764)

edited Jan 14 '19 at 14:31

asked Jan 11 '19 at 19:06

Josephine Ankrah

This appears to be a duplicate to the following question: [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5096538/customize-axis-labels). – OTStats Jan 11 '19 at 19:20
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Please share sample data so we can run your code. – markus Jan 11 '19 at 19:23
In other words, change `scale_y_discrete` to `scale_y_continuous`. – Axeman Jan 11 '19 at 20:27
when I change to scale y continuous I get this error: Error in f(..., self = self) : Breaks and labels are different lengths – Josephine Ankrah Jan 14 '19 at 14:32
Use argument `breaks = seq(50e3, 200e3, by = 50e3)` and then the same `labels`. – Rui Barradas Jan 14 '19 at 16:35

how to change x axis labels in ggplot

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