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Should the RHS margin of themed plots adjust to accomodate x-axis tick labels? #492
Description
We currently have the undesirable property that long(ish) labels can get cut off.
For example:
library(tinyplot)
mod = lm(body_mass ~ 0 + species, data = penguins)
coefs = data.frame(
names(coef(mod)),
coef(mod),
confint(mod)
) |> setNames(c("term", "estimate", "lwr", "upr"))
plt(
estimate ~ term,
ymin = lwr, ymax = upr,
data = coefs,
type = "errorbar",
theme = "clean"
)
box("outer", lty = 2)
Created on 2025-09-21 with reprex v2.1.1
Somewhat related to #479
Activity
grantmcdermott commentedon Sep 15, 2026
This issue is much less of a problem now, following the introduction of rotated labels (
x/yaxr#717) and the improved spacing for axes with few categorical levels (#732). E.g., the exact same plot above now clears the clipping threshold without a problem:Of course, that's not say that this will never be an issue. But I think dynamic spacing adjustment for labels is the wrong way to go and will require a lot of code for something that users can easily avoid with rotated labels, flipped plots, multline axis labels (via
x/yaxl), etc. I'll add some examples to the docs that demonstrate these ideas and then close this issue.grantmcdermott commentedon Sep 20, 2026
Closed with #736