Changing axis scale and decimal points in R

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I am trying to change both the yaxis scale and the amount of decimal places. I am using ylim() (to change y scale) and scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::number_format(accuracy = 0.01)) (from scale package to change the decimal points) but they wont work together. I am using ggplot to plot my data.

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shafee · Answer 1 · 2022-07-11T14:23:09.117

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If you use limits in scale_y_continuous, it will work.

Also you may want to use label_number instead of number_format, because, number_format is superseded by label_number as per the documentation,

These functions are kept for backward compatibility; you should switch to label_number()/label_comma() for new code.

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, y = drat)) +
  geom_point() +
  scale_y_continuous(
    labels = scales::label_number(accuracy = 0.1), 
    limits = c(3, 4)
  )

(Using mtcars built-in data for demo)

edited Jul 11 '22 at 14:23

answered Jul 11 '22 at 04:52

shafee

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Hi, this code still doesn't work. If I change 0.01 to 0.1 it remains the same because ylim is overriding scale_y_continuous – confusedindividual Jul 11 '22 at 05:16
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@confusedindividual, Use limits in `scale_y_continuous` ?? – shafee Jul 11 '22 at 05:38

Changing axis scale and decimal points in R

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