Figure labels or captions in ggplot2

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You can also use the tag label

library(ggplot2)
library(gapminder)
data(gapminder, package = 'gapminder')

ggplot(subset(gapminder, year %in% 1977), aes(gdpPercap, lifeExp)) +
    geom_point() + 
    labs(title = "test title",
         tag = "Figure 1: This is a test note") +
    coord_cartesian(clip = "off") +
    theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5),
          plot.margin = margin(t = 10, r = 10, b = 40, l = 10),
          plot.tag.position = c(0.2, -0.1)
          )

Created on 2019-09-29 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

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