Study titles vertical not horizontal

[rachaelmburke]

Hi,

Thanks so much for making this amazing package. Thank you!

I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong, but I'm using the code pretty much 'out of the box', so not sure what I could be doing wrong.

In all the traffic light plots the labels for my papers are vertical, not horizontal. This means you basically can't read the names of the papers as they get cut off the edges.

In all you pictures / documentation the screenshots show horizontal study labels.

Have I done something wrong or did something odd sneak in at the last update?

To Reproduce

library(robvis)
rob_traffic_light(data_rob2,tool="ROB2")

Returns this....

(from my computer screen - look at the direction of text on the labels)

I was expecting...

(from the documentation)

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: 10.15.4
• Browser: RStudio v1.2, R 4.0

Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.

[mcguinlu]

Hi @rachaelmburke ,

Thanks for your message - this is a known issue, and it is due to changes in the way the ggplot2 package orientates the labels of facet levels since V3.3.0 of that package.

If you install the development version of robvis via the code below, and make sure you have the most current version of ggplot2 (via install.packages("ggplot2")), it should work as expected:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mcguinlu/robvis")

Please let me know if that doesn't work. For reference, the fix should be added to the CRAN version of robvis in the coming weeks (though I said that a few weeks ago too, so fingers crossed I actually get around to it this time)!

[mcguinlu]

Hi @rachaelmburke, I'm just doing a clean-out of Issues related to this project, and as I haven't heard anything back from you, I'm going to close this for the time being. Please feel free to re-open it if you encounter any further issues/the fix above doesn't work!

[Kumereng]

Thanks this helps.

[paulsharpeY]

Works for me.

[elliott-taylor1]

Hi, I am experiencing the same issue re: study labels. Is there another solution for this as I am not having any luck with the solution mentioned above. Kind regards, Elliott

[mcguinlu]

Hey @elliott-taylor1,

It might be a case that you also need to update ggplot2 to the latest version.

Use the following to update ggplot2, and then try robvis again?

install.packages("ggplot2")

If that doesn't work, would you mind running:

sessionInfo()

and copy/pasting the output, so that I can try and debug the issue?

[rehrenk]

I'm having this issue as well - I installed both ggplot2 and robvis last week so they should be up to date. I also tried running devtools::install_github("mcguinlu/robvis") and got the following error message:

Error in utils::download.file(url, path, method = method, quiet = quiet, :
download from 'https://api.github.com/repos/mcguinlu/robvis/tarball/HEAD' failed

My output from sessionInfo() is:
R version 4.3.1 (2023-06-16)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Ventura 13.4

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib; LAPACK version 3.11.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: America/New_York
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] ggplot2_3.4.3 readxl_1.4.3 pacman_0.5.1 robvis_0.3.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] gtable_0.3.4 dplyr_1.1.2 compiler_4.3.1 tidyselect_1.2.0 tidyr_1.3.0 scales_1.2.1
[7] yaml_2.3.7 fastmap_1.1.1 R6_2.5.1 labeling_0.4.3 generics_0.1.3 knitr_1.43
[13] tibble_3.2.1 munsell_0.5.0 pillar_1.9.0 rlang_1.1.1 utf8_1.2.3 xfun_0.40
[19] cli_3.6.1 withr_2.5.0 magrittr_2.0.3 digest_0.6.33 grid_4.3.1 rstudioapi_0.15.0
[25] lifecycle_1.0.3 vctrs_0.6.3 evaluate_0.21 glue_1.6.2 farver_2.1.1 cellranger_1.1.0
[31] fansi_1.0.4 colorspace_2.1-0 rmarkdown_2.24 purrr_1.0.2 tools_4.3.1 pkgconfig_2.0.3
[37] htmltools_0.5.6

I would appreciate any ideas you have about what I need to do to get the study titles horizontal - thank you in advance!

[befriendabacterium]

I also got the same error as @rehrenk so could not download the fixed dev version. A quick workaround if you have to rely on the CRAN version is to add 'theme(strip.text.y.left = element_text(angle = 0))' to your rob figure ggplot object so it flips the study labels:

data <- rbind(data_rob2, data_rob2)
data$Study <- paste("Study",seq(1,18))

# Plot with reduced point size
test<-rob_traffic_light(data, tool = "ROB2", psize = 10)
test+
  theme(strip.text.y.left = element_text(angle = 0))
``