Logarithmic y-axis Tick Marks in R plot() or ggplot2()

Question

I saw the ideal tick-mark structure for a log=\"y\" plot in this paper, Figure 3b 3c 3d.

It has short, log-spaced minor tick marks without labels, plus long

Answer 1

Here is a ggplot2 solution:

library(ggplot2)

set.seed(20180407)

df = data.frame(x = seq(from = 1, by = 1, length.out = 20),
                y = 2^(seq(to = 1, by = -1, length.out = 20) + rnorm(20, 0, 0.7)))

ggplot(data = df, aes(x = x, y = y)) +
  geom_line() +
  scale_y_log10() +
  annotation_logticks(sides = "l") 

You can make it look even more than the paper you linked to with some theming:

ggplot(data = df, aes(x = x, y = y)) +
  geom_line(colour = "blue") +
  geom_point(colour = "blue") +
  scale_y_log10() +
  annotation_logticks(sides = "l") +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(panel.grid = element_blank(), 
        axis.line = element_line(),
        axis.ticks.x = element_line())