Changing font size and direction of axes text in ggplot2

Question

I am plotting a graph with a categorical variable on the x axis and a numerical variable on the y axis.

For the x axis, given that there are many data points, the de

Answer 1

Ditto @Drew Steen on the use of theme(). Here are common theme attributes for axis text and titles.

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = factor(cyl), y = mpg))+
  geom_point()+
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(color = "grey20", size = 20, angle = 90, hjust = .5, vjust = .5, face = "plain"),
        axis.text.y = element_text(color = "grey20", size = 12, angle = 0, hjust = 1, vjust = 0, face = "plain"),  
        axis.title.x = element_text(color = "grey20", size = 12, angle = 0, hjust = .5, vjust = 0, face = "plain"),
        axis.title.y = element_text(color = "grey20", size = 12, angle = 90, hjust = .5, vjust = .5, face = "plain"))