Wrap long axis labels via labeller=label_wrap in ggplot2

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You don’t need the label_wrap function. Instead use the str_wrap function from the stringr package.

You do not provide your df data frame, so I create a simple data frame, one that contains your labels. Then, apply the str_wrap function to the labels. 

library(ggplot2)
library(stringr)

df = data.frame(x = c("label", "long label", "very, very long label"), 
                y = c(10, 15, 20))
df

df$newx = str_wrap(df$x, width = 10)
df

Now to apply the labels to a ggplot chart: The first chart uses the original labels; the second chart uses the modified labels; and for the third chart, the labels are modified in the call to ggplot.

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("Number of Participants") +
  geom_bar(stat = "identity") 

ggplot(df, aes(newx, y)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("Number of Participants") +
  geom_bar(stat = "identity")

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) + 
  xlab("") + ylab("Number of Participants") +
  geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
  scale_x_discrete(labels = function(x) str_wrap(x, width = 10))

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