How to put the plot title inside the plot using ggplot2 in R?

Generally, we put the plot title on top side of the plot but we can put it inside the plot as well. Of course, this will change the display of the chart but it will also get attraction of viewers. To do this, we can use the theme function of ggplot2 package where margin argument for plot title will change the position of the title.

Consider the below data frame −

Example

 Live Demo

x<-rnorm(20) y<-rnorm(20) df<-data.frame(x,y) df

Output

       x           y 1  -0.30662899  -0.37957405 2  -0.82615057  -1.26477881 3  -0.11692952   0.01427444 4  -0.34331938   2.03706444 5  -1.49544241   0.35632086 6  -0.07656434  -1.68049294 7  -0.05300648  -0.24720322 8   1.24363223   0.84503405 9  -0.05653599  -1.18044286 10 -0.04502879   0.43735809 11  0.04637793   0.47158401 12 -0.52382139  -1.02630948 13  1.60555319   0.64673159 14  1.80033105  -1.79870479 15 -0.10558775  -0.02166056 16 -0.68224275   0.61533007 17 -1.79128676  -0.45239927 18  0.34083402  -0.95344404 19 -0.39968860  -0.20690004 20 -0.53267410   2.17089520

Loading ggplot2 package and creating a scatterplot between x and y −

Example

library(ggplot2) ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_point()+ggtitle("Scatterplot")

Output

Creating the scatterplot between x and y with plot title inside the plot area −

Example

ggplot(df,aes(x,y))+geom_point()+ggtitle("Scatterplot")+theme(plot.title=element_text(margin=margin(t=10,b=-20)))

Output