How do I show only the y axis and hide everything else - including the plot itself and the x axis?

Question

I need to show only the elements of the y axis and nothing else.

name <- c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E")
values <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
data<-data.frame(name, values)

ggplot()
geom_blank(data=data, aes(y=reorder(name,desc(name))))+
theme(axis.text.x=element_blank(),
axis.title = element_blank(), 
axis.text.y=element_text(colour="black"))

This still shows the plot. I want to show only the y axis elements.

Answer 1

Is this what you are looking for?

name <- c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E")
values <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
df1<-data.frame(name, values)

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

ggplot(df1, aes(values, y=reorder(name,desc(name)))) +
  theme_void()+
  theme(axis.text.y=element_text(colour="black"))

^{Created on 2023-02-09 with reprex v2.0.2}

Answer 2

If your aim is just to draw five letters without anything else, no need to bother with axes, but draw the labels directly.

ggplot() + 
  annotate(geom = "text", x = 1, y = 1:5, label = rev(LETTERS[1:5])) +
  theme_void()

Answer 3

This will get you most of the way there:

ggplot()+
geom_blank(data=data, aes(y=reorder(name,desc(name))))+
  theme_minimal()

Then you just need to drop the gridlines and label:

ggplot()+
geom_blank(data=data, aes(y=reorder(name,desc(name))))+
  theme_minimal()+
  theme(panel.grid = element_blank(),
        axis.title = element_blank())