hjust does not work with scale_y_continuous(position="right")

[amongoodtx]

I have found that when I use scale_y_continuous(position="right"), setting hjust does not work in theme(axis.text.y = element_text(hjust=1)). The labels are always left-justified no matter how hjust is set. If I set position="left", then hjust=0 gives right-justified labels and hjust=1 gives left-justified labels as expected.

Here is the code to reproduce the bug:

set.seed(123)
df <- data.frame(var1=rnorm(56,mean=50,sd=50), var2=rnorm(56,mean=20))

ggplot(df, aes(var2,var1)) + geom_point() +
    theme(axis.text.y = element_text(hjust=1)) +
    scale_y_continuous(position="right") 

[teunbrand]

Thanks for the report! This is due to how inheritance rules work for the theme. By default, the axis.text.y.right option has a hjust value that overrules that option from axis.text.y. To adjust, you can use `theme(axis.text.y.right = element_text(hjust=1).

This is a known behaviour and you can hear more about it in a talk by Kara. Because it is not a bug, I'm going to close this issue.