How to label an axis with several variables in R ggplot2

Question

I have a dataframe as follows:

 Name,Tutor,Test,Score,Percent,school.year
 Mark,Eric,Maths,100,100,2
 Mark,Eric,English,91,91,2
 Sue,Richard,Maths,88,100,5
 Sue,Richard,English,71,80.7,5

I would like to plot percent on the y axis and name on the x axis with bars for each test. My code does the plot how I would like but the x-axis label is just the name. I would like to add other variables (just to the label) in the x-axis. So for example mark with have 2 bars; 1 for maths and 1 for english, his xaxis label with also say 'mark' '\n' 'Eric' so we can see who tutored him. If possible I would like to add several additional labels such as school year. My code so far is as follows;

 results <- read.csv('results.csv')
 p <- ggplot(results, aes(y=Percent, x=Name, colour=Test, fill=Test)) + 
 geom_bar(stat='identity', position='dodge') + 
 ggtitle('Test Results') + 
 ylab('Percent')

I can plot a single variable as the x-axis label e.g:

 +scale_x_discrete(labels = results$Score)

or change them manually (although there are problems with the order);

scale_x_discrete(labels = c('Mark \n Eric','Sue \n Richard', etc))

Is there a way to add other variables to the x-labels, ideally with line breaks? Many thanks

Marat Talipov · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-11 20:21:43Z

5

I'd suggest to create another column in your data frame, which will contain labels, and then use it as x:

results$label <- paste(results$Name,results$Tutor,sep='\n')

ggplot(results, aes(y=Percent, x=label, colour=Test, fill=Test)) +
  geom_bar(stat='identity', position='dodge') +
  ggtitle('Test Results') +
  ylab('Percent')

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answered Feb 11, 2015 at 20:21

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