Changing the axis title

Hello,

I’m coming from R + ggplot2 and I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong here to change the axis title.

from plotnine import *
from plotnine.data import *
p = ggplot(aes(x='displ', y='cty'), mpg) + scale_x_continuous(name="foo")
p + geom_point()

From the docs

class plotnine.scales.scale_x_continuous(**kwargs) name (str, optional) – Name used as the label of the scale. This is what shows up as the axis label or legend title.

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R equivalent:

library(ggplot2)
data(mtcars)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x=disp, y=mpg)) + geom_point() + scale_x_continuous(name="foo")

Thanks for taking a look, and sorry if I’ve misunderstood due to being new to plotnine.

[jwhendy]

Update: when I use ggplot2, I’ll frequently do scale_y_continuous("") when the label is obvious or unhelpful.

I just found that passing an empty string reverts to whatever the column label is. In other words, name='foo' works, but not name=''. I can pass a space to hack this, but wanted to bring it up.

Taking an empty string would match ggplot2 behavior to remove an axis label.

[jwhendy]

Are these all in issues? I’ve been using R’s ggplot2 for maybe 7 years and the fact that you’ve built it for python is about the coolest thing ever. I’ve putzed with some other libraries, but when I just need to get something done, I use this!

tl;dr version: do you need help with some of these things? I can certainly write up some examples. For example I noticed there aren’t any for geom_text() and annotate() yesterday…

If you have an overall strategy (for example, “Replicate R’s ggplot2 pages over time”), I will happily help out.