Make bar chart's x-axis markers horizontal or 45 degree readable in Python Altair

Question

I am trying to create a bar chart with year data on x-axis. It works but the year marker on x-xais are all in vertical direction and I want to make them more readable - either horizontal or 45 degree. I tried using the year:T in datatime format but it gave me the year and month markers (I just wanted to have the year markers on xais). How do I make the year markers on x-axis either horizontal or 45 degree?

import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data

source = data.wheat()
source.info()

abars = alt.Chart(source).mark_bar().encode(
    x='year:O',
    y="wheat:Q"
)

Answer 1

Set labelAngle:

alt.Chart(source).mark_bar().encode(
    x=alt.X('year:O', axis=alt.Axis(labelAngle=-45)),
    y="wheat:Q"
)