How to change the adjustment of the plot title using ggplot2 to align it above the Y-axis labels in R?

When we create a plot and put a title above it, the alignment of the title is left-adjusted by default and that lies on the edge of the plot area. But sometimes, we want to display the title on the above side of the Y-axis labels, therefore, we can use theme function and set the hjust argument accordingly.

Example

Consider the below data frame −

 Live Demo

x<-sample(1:50,20) y<-rpois(20,2) df<-data.frame(x,y) df

Output

   x  y 1  1  2 2  50 0 3  19 3 4  33 4 5  43 1 6  17 1 7  7  1 8  28 4 9  18 0 10 22 1 11 21 0 12 11 1 13 34 4 14  9 4 15  4 4 16 37 1 17 48 3 18 25 0 19  8 1 20 32 1

Example

library(ggplot2) ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_point()+labs(title="Scatterplot")

Output

Example

ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_point()+labs(title="Scatterplot")+theme(plot.title=element_tex t(hjust=-0.07))

Output