Syntax error How to set the alignment of labels in horizontal bar plot to left in R?

How to set the alignment of labels in horizontal bar plot to left in R?

When we create a horizontal bar plot using ggplot2 package, the labels of the categorical variable are aligned to the right-side of the axis and if the size of these labels are different then it looks a little ambiguous. Therefore, we might want to set the alignment of the labels to left-side and this can be done by using theme function of ggplot2 package.

Example

Consider the below data frame:

> df<-data.frame(x,y)
> df

Output

    x     y
1 India  14
2 UK     15
3 Russia 12
4 United States of America 18

Loading ggplot2 package and creating a horizontal bar plot:

Example

> library(ggplot2)
> ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_bar(stat="identity")+coord_flip()

Output:


Creating the horizontal bar plot with categorical variable labels aligned to left-side:

Example

> ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_bar(stat="identity")+coord_flip()+theme(axis.text.y=element_text(hjust=0))

Output:


Updated on: 2020-11-06T12:00:15+05:30

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