Strip Label

ggplot2 axis [titles, labels, ticks, limits and scales] The labels argument is the one used to customize the labels, where you can input a vector with the new labels or a custom labeller function as in the example below. # Custom Y-axis labels labels Axes (ggplot2) - Cookbook for R To set and hide the axis labels: bp + theme(axis.title.x = element_blank()) + # Remove x-axis label ylab("Weight (Kg)") # Set y-axis label # Also possible to set the axis label with the scale # Note that vertical space is still reserved for x's label bp + scale_x_discrete(name="") + scale_y_continuous(name="Weight (Kg)") Ggplot remove y axis labels