How can I suppress the vertical gridlines in a ggplot2 plot while retaining the x-axis labels?

Question

This is a follow-on from this question, in which I was trying to suppress the vertical gridlines.

The solution, as provided by learnr, was to add scale_x_continuous(brea

Answer 1

For people looking this up in 2020, I have found a solution in the form of the removeGrid function from the ggExtra library here rdrr.io > removeGrid

I have tested it to be working with ggplot2 version 3.3.0 and ggExtra version 0.9, giving me axis ticks without the gridlines.