Changing font size and direction of axes text in ggplot2

Use theme():

d <- data.frame(x=gl(10, 1, 10, labels=paste("long text label ", letters[1:10])), y=rnorm(10))
ggplot(d, aes(x=x, y=y)) + geom_point() +
    theme(text = element_text(size=20),
        axis.text.x = element_text(angle=90, hjust=1)) 
#vjust adjust the vertical justification of the labels, which is often useful

There’s lots of good information about how to format your ggplots here. You can see a full list of parameters you can modify (basically, all of them) using ?theme.

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