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tinyplot
(Title position stays fixed)
factor2 = function(x) factor(x, levels = unique(x), labels = ) dat = data.frame( x = 1:12, mnth1 = factor2(1:12), mnth2 = factor2(month.name) ) library(tinyplot) tinytheme("clean") plt(mnth1 ~ x, data = dat, type = "p", main = "Months of the year", sub = "A relevant subtitle")
plt(mnth2 ~ x, data = dat, type = "p", main = "Months of the year", sub = "A relevant subtitle")
tinytheme()
ggplot2
(Title shifts rightwards with longer y-axis labels. I think this looks better...)
library(ggplot2) set_theme(theme_linedraw()) ggplot(dat, aes(x, mnth1)) + geom_point() + labs(title = "Months of the year", subtitle = "A relevant subtitle")
ggplot(dat, aes(x, mnth2)) + geom_point() + labs(title = "Months of the year", subtitle = "A relevant subtitle")
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