y-axis label for the left-side bar plot

[HyprValent]

I'm currently using this package in order to produce some images that will be used by others for analysis.
In order to make it more understandable as a standalone image, I was looking into setting up a basic y-axis label on the leftside bar plot to explain what it means. Something like this:

Is this currently possible in the package? I tried looking through the docs and couldn't find anything.
Thank you!

[jnothman]

Try something like:

my_upset = UpSetPlot(...)
...
axes_dict = my_upset.plot(data)
totals_axes = axes_dict["totals"]
totals_axes.set_ylabel("Total observations")

[Xparx]

This example does not work for me,
upsetplot.__version__
'0.8.0'

import upsetplot
example = upsetplot.generate_counts()
axes_dict = upsetplot.plot(example)
totals_axes = axes_dict["totals"]
totals_axes.set_ylabel("blabla")

generates the figure

For some reason the label isn't drawn(?).
I'm kind of guessing it might be the sharey setting that is spooking it.
as totals_axes.set_xlabel("blabla") seems to work as expected.

[jnothman]

I've got a fix coming in 0.9.0, fixed in #243. In the meantime you'll need to use something like

my_upset = UpSetPlot(...)
...
axes_dict = my_upset.plot(data)
totals_axes = axes_dict["totals"]
label_axis = totals_axes.yaxis
label_axis.set_visible(True)
label_axis.set_ticklabels([])
label_axis.set_ticks([])
label_axis.set_label("Total observations")

[jnothman]

Actually, that's not working. We need a more substantial change to set a ylabel on totals plot. But you can set an xlabel fine.