How to force the x-axis tick marks to appear at the end of bar in heatmap graph?

Question

I created a simple heatmap graph with ggplot2 but I need to force the x-axis tick marks to appear at the end of my x variable, rather than at its center. F

Answer 1

geom_tile centres each tile at the coordinates given. Therefore you would expect the output which it does give.

Therefore If you give ggplot the centres (not the top-right corner coordinates) for each cell it will work.

ggplot(df, aes(x = x-0.5, y = y-0.5, fill = fill)) + 
  geom_tile() + 
  scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0,0), breaks = 0:3) + 
  scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0,0), breaks = 0:3) + 
  ylab('y') + 
  xlab('x')

or using qplot

qplot(data = df, x= x-0.5, y = y-0.5, fill = fill, geom = 'tile')  + 
   scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0,0), breaks = 0:3) + 
   scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0,0), breaks = 0:3) + 
   ylab('y') + 
   xlab('x')