vertical adjustment of axes' text/labels doesn't work - ggplot2 2.0.0

[kategorically]

When trying to adjust the vertical position of axes' labels theme(axis.text=element_text(hjust=N)) or axes' titles theme(axis.title=element_text(hjust=N)), N being a number between (-1;1), I get no response. There's not error message, just no reaction form R - the labels/titles stay put.

Same thing happens (or rather doesn't happen) when I try to adjust the axis label/title for only one axis at a time (only axis.text.x/axis.title.x or only axis.text.y/axis.title.y)

Strangely, horizontal adjustment (vjust=N) works just fine...

I'm using: R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) with ggplot2 2.0.0. I tried running under it different RStudio versions - both 0.99.489 and 0.99.822. No dice. Fairly sure it's not R's or RStudio's fault.

I've tested this both on Windows:

Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

and Mac:

Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite)

Failure both times. Everything works perfectly fine when using ggplot 1.0.1, so this is just the dev version's issue.

[hadley]

Using hjust has always been a hack. Please use the new margins parameter instead.

[kategorically]

Do you mean using nudge_y=N instead of vjust=Ninside theme(axis.title=element_text(...))? Because I tried that and the labels still wouldn't budge.

Unless there's a different set of parameters?

[hadley]

No, margins

[kategorically]

Oh. Well _I am_ using plot.margin as well as a bunch of other parameters (including vjust). I'm combining them for a specific purpose, though, so I'll either figure a workaround on my own or downgrade to 1.0.1 for now. No need to litter GitHub any further. Thanks anyways!

[hadley]

Oh, margins parameter, i.e. element_text(margin = margins(t = 10, b = 5))

[hadley]

Also you might find https://github.com/hadley/ggplot2/blob/master/NEWS.md helpful, and I'm working on a blog post that will cover the biggest differences (including this one). Here's a snippet

• All text elements now have a margin, which by default scale with the font
  size in the theme. This leads to nicer spacing, particularly at large font
  sizes. This means hacks with vjust and hjust no longer work. Instead,
  use the margin() parameter of element_text(), and if you're having
  problems understanding the layout, try debug = TRUE.

df <- data.frame(x = 1:3, y = 1:3)
plot <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + 
  geom_point() + 
  ggtitle("An important plot")

plot
plot + theme(plot.title = element_text(margin = margin(b = 20)))
plot + theme(text = element_text(debug = TRUE))

[Huimincheng2015]

There are 4 dimensions of each margin, that is, t, r, b, l.
But when I was trying to adjust each 4 dimension using margin( ), I got no response when I adjusted parameter "r" and "l", the code is shown as follows:
df <- data.frame(x = 1:3, y = 1:3)
plot <- ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
geom_point() +
ggtitle("An important plot")

plot
plot + theme(plot.title = element_text(margin = margin(t = 20,r = 20,b = 20, l = 20)))
plot + theme(text = element_text(debug = TRUE))

[millerjef]

I think I'm having the same issue as @Huimincheng2015.

Using Hadley's example:
plot + theme(plot.title = element_text(margin = margin(20)))
the input to margin() does not seem to make any noticeable difference.

In my specific case, I'm trying to change the margin around strip.text:

p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, cty)) + geom_point() + facet_grid(. ~ cyl) 
p
p <- p + theme(text = element_text(debug = TRUE))
p
p + theme(strip.text = element_text(margin = margin(5)))
p + theme(strip.text = element_text(margin = margin(100)))

sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.11.5 (El Capitan)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] ggplot2_2.1.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] labeling_0.3     colorspace_1.2-6 scales_0.4.0     magrittr_1.5     plyr_1.8.4       rsconnect_0.4.3 
 [7] tools_3.3.1      gtable_0.2.0     reshape2_1.4.1   Rcpp_0.12.5      stringi_1.1.1    grid_3.3.1      
[13] stringr_1.0.0    munsell_0.4.3

[millerjef]

Looks like this is the same issue as:
#1502