r - Placement of axis labels at minor breaks with ggplot2

Question

I am using ggplot2 to do some plotting of genomic data, so the basic format is that there is a chromosome and a position along it. I convert the positions to be on a continuous scale, then put the breaks at the boundaries of the chromosomes with:

scale_x_continuous("Genome Position", breaks = c(0, cumsum(chromosome_length)))

That looks great, as far as the actual plotting is concerned, but the labels are then put at the start and end of the chromosomes. I would like them to be centered along each chromosome, at the position where the minor break is drawn by default.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

How about this?

breaks <- c(0, cumsum(chromosome_length))
scale_x_continuous("Genome Position", breaks = breaks + 0.5, labels = breaks)