How to show only integers (no decimals) in chart API x/y-axis labels

Question

I'm using a column chart with the Google Chart JS Api. I'm displaying some values (total orders by day) that can only be represented as integers.

Everything is working great, except that when one of the charts I'm displaying has values that are too low, like 1 or 2, it starts to show decimals on the y-axis. The decimals look silly b/c it's impossible to have "half" an order (which is what I'm counting), and I'd like to hide this if possible.

Answer 1

This issue will be resolved if you use vAxis: {gridlines: { count: 4}}

Answer 2

For anyone that are also searching for the answer, you can see the answer to this question here, which use options format. Can't get Google Charts Axis to format in decimal

Answer 3

I prefer the gridlines: { count: -1 } option, but you can always explicitly specify the values you want with ticks. Cool thing about this is they don't even have to be evenly spaced - you could do [1, 10, 100, 200, 500, 1000] if you wanted:

options: { vAxis: { ticks: [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] } }

Depending upon your data you may want to hardcode this or use thresholds.

Answer 4

I'm using the Guava Multiset as my data. Cagy79's trick is the only one that I was able to get working. I also tried generating my own lines using an IntStream, but still had fractional numbers for some of the graphs. As mentioned above, just setting the format will create a graph where the hover over value and the gridline differ.

Multiset items = TreeMultiset.create();

Items added using .add and .addAll

Make sure the items are sorted:

occurrences = Multisets.copyHighestCountFirst(items);

String option = "hAxis : { title : 'Count', gridlines : { count:" + ((max >=12) ? 4 : max+1) + } }")

Answer 5

I'm using the following code:

google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(function(){
    var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
    data.addColumn('string', 'Y');
    data.addColumn('number', 'X');

    var max = 0; //Or something like Int.MinValue
    for (var i = 0;i< arr.length;i++) {
      max = (arr[i]>max)? arr[i]:max; //calculate max value
      data.addRow("<<some calculation>>");
    }

    var options = {
      height: 300,
      vAxis: {
        gridlines: { count: max+1}, //+1 is importent for the origingridline
        viewWindow:{
          min: 0,
          max: max
        },
      }
    };

    var chart = new google.visualization.ColumnChart(document.getElementById("<< div_id >>"));

    chart.draw(data, options);
  }

Just calculate your maximum value and then set gridlines.count to this value

Answer 6

In my case I have values ranging from 0 to 600.

• if $value is smaller than 12: use the max value for vAxis.gridlines.count
• if $value is greater than 12: use the default nr of gridlines (4)

In this way you only display 'whole numbers'.

You'll need to dynamically generate the javascript off course.

Code Example:

google.charts.load('current', {'packages':['corechart']});
google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawChart);
function drawChart() {
    var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([
        ['Fase', 'Closed', 'Open'],
        <?php
        $max = 0; // needed to determine the number of gridlines?
        $data = array();
        foreach($projectExecutions as $key => $pe){
            $totals = countOpenIssuesInProjectExecution($pe);
            $open = $totals['open'];
            $closed = $totals['closed'];
            $data[] = "['". $FASE[$pe['fase_id']] . "', " . $closed . ", ". $open . "]\r\n";
            // What are the Max values vor Open & Closed Defects
            if($open > $max ){ $max = $open; }
            if($closed > $max ){ $max = $closed; }
        }
        $nrOfGridLines = ($max >= 12 ? 4 : $max+1); // Calculate the number of gridlines
        echo implode(",",$data);
        ?>
    ]);
    var options = {
        legend: { position: 'bottom' }
        ,title: "Evolution Defects: Open -VS- Closed"
        ,colors:['#00a160','red']
        ,isStacked: true
        ,vAxis: {textPosition: 'in', minValue:0,viewWindow: { min: 0 }, gridlines: {count: <?php echo $nrOfGridLines; ?>} }

    };
    var chart = new google.visualization.AreaChart(document.getElementById('chart_defects'));
    chart.draw(data, options);
}

Answer 7

The easiest way is to edit the left vertical axis, with Min as 0, and Max as a multiple of 5 (5, 10, 15 etc) as appropriate to your expected maximum.

Answer 8

if you want only the integer values to be shown, you should take to account that google charts wants to show you at least 5 gridlines. Presuming all of them should be integer give the graph following:

vAxis: {  title: 'Orders Count',

                minValue: 4,                    
                viewWindow:{min:0}, /*this also makes 0 = min value*/         
                format: '0',                     
            },

Answer 9

Adding {format : 0} converts the float ticks to integers but the actual values on the bars appear incorrectly.

The main issue is Google Charts API assumes you want 5 gridlines mostly which may not work out to give you integer tick values.

Adding this gave me nice round tick values -

  gridlines: { count: -1}

source - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-visualization-api/4qCeUgE-OmU

Answer 10

use the option

vAxis: {format: '0'}

as in

chart.draw(data, {
                   width: 800,
                   height: 480,
                   orientation: 'horizontal',
                   vAxis: {format: '0'}
                  }
           );

Answer 11

I don't have enough rep to reply to Ian Hunter's post directly, but what that does is format the label, but doesn't set the grid lines to the same value as the label, which can have undesirable results. So let's say you have these grid lines:

10

7.5

5

2.5

0

When you format the label to only show integers it shows this: 10 8 5 3 0

But then your data on the graph doesn't tie-in with the y-scale labels. E.g If you have a value of 3 it actually shows above the '3' labels because the '3' label is actually 2.5

Unfortunately, the only solution I could think of was to monitor the min/max ranges of the data shown in the graph, and then apply some logic to set the min/max according to how many y-scale labels I have, such that they would divide with no remainders.

So in the case above, I'd set it to

        vAxis: { 
          viewWindow:{
            max:12,
            min:0
          }
        }

This would give grid lines of

12

8

6

4

0

No decimals, and no problems with the data not correlating with the labels on the graph.