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rplotggplot2histogram
grssnbchr
grssnbchr

Reputation: 2974

ggplot2: Use both scientific notation and full numbers

I have a ggplot2 plot,histogram produced as follows:

  library("ggplot2")
  library("scales")
  df <- data.frame(test = rnorm(1000, 1000, 40000))
  p <- ggplot(df, aes(x = test)) + geom_histogram(colour="black", fill="#FF9999")
  # set themes, axes and labels
  p <- p + theme_minimal() + theme() + xlab("Distance travelled [km]") + ylab("Count of users") 


  # transformation
  p <- p + scale_x_log10(breaks = trans_breaks("log10", function(x) {10^x}),
                       labels = trans_format("log10", math_format(10^.x))
  )

  # plot
  p

Output: enter image description here

I used the scales package to display x axis labels as powers of ten, but actually, I would like to display them as decimal numbers, as long as the number is below, let's say 10^4 and 10^-4, for the below plot, this would give the following axis labels

100
1000
10^4
10^5

How can I do this within trans_format(), or is there another, better solution?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1491

Answers (1)

James
James

Reputation: 66834

You can use ifelse to branch between identity and trans_format:

f <- function (x) ifelse(log10(x)<4,identity(x),trans_format("log10",math_format(10^.x))(x))
> f(10^(1:6))
[[1]]
[1] 10

[[2]]
[1] 100

[[3]]
[1] 1000

[[4]]
10^`4`

[[5]]
10^`5`

[[6]]
10^`6`

p + scale_x_log10(breaks = trans_breaks("log10", function(x) {10^x}), labels=f)

Upvotes: 3

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