How to set limits for axes in ggplot2 R plots?

Question

I plot the following: library(ggplot2) carrots <- data.frame(length = rnorm(500000, 10000, 10000)) cukes <- data.frame(length = rnorm(50000, 10000, 20000)) carrots$veg <- 'carrot' cukes$veg <- 'cuke' vegLengths <- rbind(carrots, cukes) ggplot(vegLengths, aes(length, fill = veg)) + geom_density(alpha = 0.2)Now say I only want to plot the region between `x=-5000` to `5000`, instead of the entire range.How can I do that?

Answer 1

This actually has a really quick fix!

As part of your ggplot block of code you add:

+ xlim(-5000,5000)

This will set the min and max range for your x axis of your plot. You can also do the same thing for the Y axis if using a continuous variable using ylim().

Hope this helps.