Is there a way to bring the labels forward with respect to plot panel in ggplot? Actually I was trying to answer my question here. I have not got any satisfactory response to that one although I thought it would be possible in ggplot. This is an attempt to get a solution although a hacky one. But the labels are rendered below the plot panel here.
Following are my (example) data, attempted solution and the resulting plot.
library(ggplot2)
library(magrittr)
mydata = data.frame(expand.grid(Tag = c('A','B','C'),Year = 2010:2011,PNo = paste0("X-",1:4)),Value = round(runif(24,1,20)))
mydata$dist = ifelse(mydata$Tag == 'A',0,ifelse(mydata$Tag=='B',2,7))
mydata %>% ggplot(aes(x = dist,y = Value,fill = factor(Year))) +geom_bar(stat='summary',position = 'dodge',fun.y='mean',width = 1) +
facet_wrap(~PNo,ncol=2) +
theme(axis.text.x = element_blank(),axis.ticks.x = element_blank()) +
geom_label(data = mydata %>% filter(PNo %in% c('X-3','X-4')),aes(x = dist,y=0,label = Tag),size=6,inherit.aes=F,color = 'red')