Control tick marks in ggforce::facet_row

Question

I am trying to produce a histogram with y-axis for different subsets of the data.

I have been following the instructions from here: How to automatically adjust the width of each facet for facet_wrap?

But I cannot seem to get the tick marks on the axis to work.

score <- rep(c(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), c(20424, 1636, 1864, 989, 397, 174, 69, 18, 4))
damage <- rep(c("No damage", "damage"), c(20424, 5151))
damage <- ordered(damage, c("No damage", "damage"))

df <- data.frame(score, damage)

library(ggplot2)
library(ggforce)

#The following produces the graph as I would like it but there are no ticks or tick labels
#on the x-axis

df %>%        
        ggplot(aes(x = score)) +
        geom_histogram(binwidth = 1) +
        scale_x_discrete(name = "Score") +
        scale_y_continuous(name = "") +
        ggforce::facet_row(vars(damage), scales = 'free', space = 'free')

##Whereas this gives me the tick marks and labels but messes up my graph

df %>%        
        ggplot(aes(x = score)) +
        geom_histogram(binwidth = 1) +
        scale_x_discrete(name = "Score",
                         limits = c(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)) +
        scale_y_continuous(name = "") +
        ggforce::facet_row(vars(damage), scales = 'free', space = 'free')

I have tried many permutations, with and without using the ggforce::facet_row option, but I just don't seem to be able to get it to work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Your `x` is continuous, not discrete. Try `scale_x_continuous(name = "Score", breaks = 0:8)`. `facet_row` can be replaced by `facet_grid(cols = vars(damage), scales = 'free', space = 'free')`, but either works. — Axeman, Apr 19 '22 at 15:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '22 at 16:30

First your x-axis is continuous, as @Axeman already mentioned in the comments. I would suggest using the facet_row of ggforce, because this will also show the y-axis of your second plot like this:

library(ggplot2)
library(ggforce)

df %>%        
  ggplot(aes(x = score)) +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 1) +
  scale_x_continuous(name = "Score", breaks = 0:8) +
  ggforce::facet_row(vars(damage), scales = 'free', space = 'free')

Output:

If you use the facet_grid, it doesn't show the labels for your second histogram like her:

library(ggplot2)
library(ggforce)

df %>%        
  ggplot(aes(x = score)) +
  geom_histogram(binwidth = 1) +
  scale_x_continuous(name = "Score", breaks = 0:8) +
  facet_grid(cols = vars(damage), scales = 'free', space = 'free')

Output:

Control tick marks in ggforce::facet_row

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