R – How to change position of x-axis text in bar graph in ggplot

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I would like to change the position of the word 'Richness' in this bar graph. I would like the word to align with the position of the first word of the other labels, i.e. be placed in the top line rather than the bottom line.

p0 <-
  ggplot(lineshift, aes(x=name, y=value, fill=factor(product))) +
  geom_bar(stat="identity", position="dodge", width=0.8) +

  geom_text(aes(x=name, y=value, ymax=value, label=round(value), 
            hjust=0.5, vjust=-0.5),
        position = position_dodge(width=0.8)) +

  scale_fill_manual(values=c("blue", "red"),
                name="Treatment",
                breaks=c(1, 2),
                labels=c("A", "B")) +

  xlab("Biodiversity") +
  ylab("Relative occurences (%)") +

  scale_y_continuous(expand=c(0.0,0.5),
                 limits=c(0, 71),
                 breaks=c(0,10,20,30,40,50,60,70),
                 labels=c("0","10","20","30","40","50","60","70")) +
  scale_x_discrete(limits=c("Biodiversity of tropical lowland rainforest", "Species composition in understorey", "Richness"),
               labels =  sapply(strwrap(as.character(lineshift$name), width=30, simplify=F), paste, collapse="\n")) +

  theme_bw() +
  theme(legend.position=c(0.9,0.9)) +
  theme(legend.title=element_blank()) +
  theme(axis.title.x = element_text(vjust=0.1,face="bold", size=16),
    axis.text.x = element_text(vjust=0.1, size=14, angle=0))+ 
  theme(axis.title.y = element_text(angle=90, vjust=0.70, face="bold", size=18),
    axis.text.y = element_text(size=14)) +
  theme(panel.grid.minor=element_blank(), panel.grid.major=element_blank()) +
  theme(panel.border = element_rect(size=2, colour = "black", fill=NA, linetype=1)) +
  theme(plot.margin = unit(c(0.3,0.4,0.28,0.0),"lines"))

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This is the data:

structure(list(product = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L), name = structure(c(1L, 
3L, 2L, 1L, 3L, 2L), .Label = c("Biodiversity of tropical lowland rainforest", 
"Richness", "Species composition in understorey"), class = "factor"), 
value = c(62.96, 22.22, 14.81, 60, 40, 0), treatment = structure(c(1L, 
1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("A", "B"), class = "factor")), .Names = c("product", 
"name", "value", "treatment"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, 
-6L))

Many thanks for any advice.

Best Answer

You can change vjust in the theme for the x-axis text:

p0 + theme(axis.text.x=element_text(vjust=1,size=14))

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