Texts created using geom_text_repel() in ggplot2 disappear when the plot is flipped using coord_flip().

[nidoe44]

Summary

Texts created using geom_text_repel() in ggplot2 disappear when the plot is flipped using coord_flip().

Minimal code example

Here is the minimum amount of code needed to demonstrate the issue:

ggplot2::ggplot(mtcars, ggplot2::aes(wt, mpg, label = rownames(mtcars))) +
    ggrepel::geom_text_repel() +
    ggplot2::geom_point(color = 'red') +
    ggplot2::theme_classic(base_size = 16) + 
    ggplot2::coord_flip()

Here is an image of the output produced by the code:

Possible Workaround

Using prior version ggrepel_0.9.2

Version information

Here is the output from sessionInfo() in my R session:

R version 4.2.3 (2023-03-15 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows Server x64 (build 17763)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252    LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_1.0.10      ggrepel_0.9.5    fansi_1.0.4      withr_2.5.0      dplyr_1.1.1      utf8_1.2.3      
 [7] grid_4.2.3       R6_2.5.1         lifecycle_1.0.3  gtable_0.3.3     magrittr_2.0.3   scales_1.2.1    
[13] ggplot2_3.4.4    pillar_1.9.0     rlang_1.1.0      cli_3.6.1        farver_2.1.1     rstudioapi_0.14 
[19] generics_0.1.3   vctrs_0.6.1      labeling_0.4.2   tools_4.2.3      glue_1.6.2       munsell_0.5.0   
[25] compiler_4.2.3   pkgconfig_2.0.3  colorspace_2.1-0 tidyselect_1.2.0 tibble_3.2.1 

[slowkow]

Thanks for sharing the example code and figure!

I think this is probably due to the recent change to make ggrepel compatible with ggbreak (see here for more details).

I wonder if there is an easy fix... pull requests are very welcome.

[rrrrrhhhhh]

If it helps, I observed the same issue when applying a transformation to the coordinates. See example below:

library(ggrepel)
library(scales)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, label = rownames(mtcars))) +
geom_text_repel() +
geom_point(color = 'red') +
theme_classic(base_size = 16) +
coord_trans(y = pseudo_log_trans(base = 2, sigma = 0.1))

[slowkow]

Thanks @rrrrrhhhhh it's always helpful to have additional test cases.

I think I might need to revert the code back to an earlier version, and drop support for ggbreak. The coordinate transformation seems more important to me than compatibility with ggbreak.

[slowkow]

This issue should be fixed by this commit in the latest development version.

4119c28

library(ggrepel)
#> Loading required package: ggplot2
library(scales)

# example 1
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, label = rownames(mtcars))) +
  geom_text_repel() +
  geom_point(color = 'red') +
  theme_classic(base_size = 16) +
  coord_flip()
#> Warning: ggrepel: 2 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider
#> increasing max.overlaps

# example 2
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, label = rownames(mtcars))) +
  geom_text_repel() +
  geom_point(color = 'red') +
  theme_classic(base_size = 16)
p
#> Warning: ggrepel: 2 unlabeled data points (too many overlaps). Consider
#> increasing max.overlaps

p + scale_x_continuous(limits = c(NA, 3))
#> Warning: Removed 20 rows containing missing values or values outside the scale range
#> (`geom_text_repel()`).
#> Warning: Removed 20 rows containing missing values or values outside the scale range
#> (`geom_point()`).

p + coord_trans(y = pseudo_log_trans(base = 2, sigma = 0.1))

^{Created on 2024-05-16 with reprex v2.0.2}

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