You can use the size argument to adjust the thickness of a line in ggplot2:
ggplot(df, aes(x = x, y = y)) + geom_line(size = 1.5)
The size is equal to 1 by default, but you can specify any decimal value you’d like to adjust the thickness.
This tutorial provides an example of how to adjust line thickness in practice.
Example: Adjust Line Thickness in ggplot2
The following code shows how to create a simple line plot using ggplot2:
#load ggplot2 visualization package library(ggplot2) #create data df frame(x=c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), y=c(6, 8, 12, 14, 11, 10, 15)) #create line plot ggplot(df, aes(x = x, y = y)) + geom_line()
By default, the line thickness is equal to 1 but we can increase it by using the size argument:
library(ggplot2) #create line plot ggplot(df, aes(x = x, y = y)) + geom_line(size = 2)
The following code displays various line plots using different sizes for the line thickness:
library(ggplot2) library(gridExtra) #create data df frame(x=c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), y=c(6, 8, 12, 14, 11, 10, 15)) #create four line plots plot1 aes(x=x,y=y)) + geom_line() + ggtitle("Size = 1 (Default)") plot2 aes(x=x,y=y)) + geom_line(size=1.5) + ggtitle("Size = 1.5") plot3 aes(x=x,y=y)) + geom_line(size=2) + ggtitle("Size = 2") plot4 aes(x=x,y=y)) + geom_line(size=3) + ggtitle("Size = 3") #display all line plots stacked on top of each other grid.arrange(plot1, plot2, plot3, plot4, ncol=1)
The larger the value given to the size argument, the thicker the line will be in the plot.
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