r - Only show every nth axis tick marks in ggplot

Question

I am able to group the dots by assigning my categorical data specific x- and y-values with empty spaces in between. Instead of showing every single tick mark on the axes,

or showing no ticks at all,

I would like to show only every nth tick mark on the axes corresponding to the labels. Can this be done in ggplot? Or maybe there is a different approach to generate the plot I am looking for.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65838041/only-show-every-nth-axis-tick-marks-in-ggplot

Answer 1

Hard to answer without a reproducible example. You could try adding a scale_x_continuous() and scale_y_continuous() statement.

ggplot(data,aes(x,y))+
scale_x_continuous(breaks=c(0,2,4,6,8,10),labels=c("0","2","4","6","8","10"))