Text is double printed with ggbreak when using geom_repel_text

[johnnl15]

Hi, i'm having this issue where the text is printed twice. Would appreciate advice on how to get around this:

require(ggplot2 )
require(ggbreak)
require(ggrepel)
set.seed(2019-01-19)
d <- data.frame(
x = 1:20,
y = c(rnorm(5) + 4, rnorm(5) + 20, rnorm(5) + 5, rnorm(5) + 22)
)

d$label<-"hello"
d$label[d$x!=7]<-NA
p <- ggplot(d, aes(x, y,label=label)) + geom_point() + geom_text_repel()+
scale_y_break(c(7, 17 ))
print(p)

[phancanhtrinh]

I have the same problem. Can anyone know how to solve this? Thank you very much

[shanshenbing]

I get same issue. Any help will be appreciated.

[jmburgos]

Same issue here. :)

[jamiahuswalton]

I am getting the same issue here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really like geom_repel_text better than geom_text.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[pormr]

Unlike ordinary facetting function, ggbreak seems to take a different approach to splitting axes, which is incompatible with ggrepel.
However, you can still use facet_grid() with space = "free_*" and scales = "free_*" to split the plot while preventing the same labels from appearing twice:

p <- ggplot(d, aes(x, y)) +
  geom_point() +
  geom_blank(data = data.frame(x = Inf, y = c(7, 17))) +
  geom_text_repel(aes(label = label)) +
  facet_grid(vars(y <= 7), space = "free_y", scales = "free_y") +
  theme(strip.background = element_blank(),
        strip.text = element_blank())

print(p)

Tips: geom_blank can sometimes be useful, especially when you want to extend the limit of axes.

[yuanlinm]

Note: This issue was not caused by the ggbreak package, but rather due to an update in the ggrepel package.

This problem occurred in the latest update of the ggrepel R package (2024-09-07 in CRAN, 2024-09-08 in Github, 0.9.6), and can be solved with the older version (2024-01-11 in Github, 0.9.5). You can use the codes below to remove the current version and install the older version.

# remove current one
remove.packages("ggrepel")

# dowload the 0.9.5 ggrepel source code from github (ggrepel-0.9.5.tar.gz)

# install older one
install.packages("~Downloads/ggrepel-0.9.5.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

# load
library(ggrepel)

Your problem will be solved.