How to dynamically wrap facet label using ggplot2

Question

I\'m looking for a way to dynamically wrap the strip label text in a facet_wrap or facet_grid call. I\'ve found a way to accomplish this using

Answer 1

Also too long for a comment but no full answer. It goes along the lines of baptiste's answer, but with a few more pointers:

p <- ggplot(df) + geom_point(aes(x=x, y=y)) + facet_wrap(~groupwrap)

# get the grobs of the plot and get the widths of the columns
grobs <- ggplotGrob(p)
grobs$width

# here you would have to use convertWidth from gridDebug package
# to convert all the units in the widths to the same unit (say 'pt'),
# including exctraction from the strings they are in -- also, I
# couldn't make it work neither for the unit 'null' nor for 'grobwidth',
# so you'll have to add up all the other ones, neglect grobwidth, and
# subtract all the widths that are not null (which is the width of each
# panel) from the device width
library('grid')
convertWidth(DO FOR EACH ELEMENT OF grobs$width)
sum <- SUM_UP_ALL_THE_NON-PANEL_WIDTHS

# get the width of the graphics device
device <- par('din')[1]

# get width of all panels in a row
panels_width <- device - sum

# get total number of panels in your case
df$group <- as.factor(df$group)
npanels <- nlevels(df$group)

# get number of panels per row (i.e. number of columns in graph) with
# the function that ggplot2 uses internally
cols <- n2mfrow(npanels)

# get estimate of width of single panel
panel_width <- panels_width / cols

Sorry that this is still patchy in parts. But that is as far as I got, so I hope these ideas might help along the way...