forcing ggplot2 y-axis label to be of integer only, and give proper breaks [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can also direclty specify the breaks in a function. Below are a few examples of how you could do this. Also look at the breaks argument in ?discrete_scale.

chart + scale_y_discrete(breaks=function(n) c(0, floor(max(n)/2), max(n)))    
chart + scale_y_discrete(breaks=function(n) n[floor(length(n)/5)*1:5+1])
chart + scale_y_discrete(breaks=function(n) 10^(ceiling(log10(max(n)))-1)*2*0:5)

Answer 2

First, as your y data are continuous you should use scale_y_continuous(). In this function you can add argument breaks= pretty_breaks() (add library scales to use function pretty_breaks()). If you don't provide any number inside pretty_breaks() then in this case you will get integer numbers on y axis. You can set number of breaks to display, for example, pretty_breaks(4) but for the first facet where you have range 0-10 it will still display only integer values and the number of breaks will be larger to get "nice" numbers.

library(scales)
ggplot(data=chart.data,aes(x=x,y=y)) + 
  geom_bar(stat="identity") +  
  facet_wrap(facets=~group,nrow=1,scale="free_y")+
  scale_y_continuous(breaks= pretty_breaks())