ggthemes

Some extra geoms, scales, and themes for ggplot, including

Geoms

• geom_rangeframe : Tufte's range frame
• geom_tufteboxplot: Tufte's box plot

Themes

• theme_tufte: a minimal ink based on Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
• theme_solarized: a theme using the solarized color palette.
• theme_stata: themes based on Stata graph schemes.
• theme_economist: a theme based on the plots in the The Economist magazine.
• theme_excel: a theme replicating the classic ugly gray charts in Excel
• theme_wsj: a theme based on the plots in the The Wall Street Journal.
• theme_few: theme from Stephen Few's "Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts".
• theme_calc: a theme based on LibreOffice Calc.
• theme_gdocs: a theme based on Google Docs.

Scales

• scale_color_solarized: Solarized colors
• scale_color_economist: colors used in plots in plots in The Economist.
• scale_color_stata, scale_shapes_stata, scale_linetype_stata: color, shape, and linetype palettes from Stata graph schemes.
• scale_color_excel: colors from new and old Excel.
• scale_color_tableau, scale_shape_tableau: color and shape palettes from Tableau.
• scale_shape_cleveland, scale_shape_tremmel, scale_shape_circlefill: shape scales from classic works in visual perception: Cleveland, Tremmel (1995), and Lewandowsky and Spence (1989).
• scale_color_few: color palettes from Stephen Few's "Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts".
• scale_color_colorblind: Colorblind safe palette from http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/.
• scale_color_gdocs: color palette from Google Docs.
• scale_color_calc, scale_shape_calc: color and shape palettes from LibreOffice Calc.

Install

To install the stable version from CRAN,

install.packages('ggthemes', dependencies = TRUE)

Or, to install the development version from github, use the devtools package,

library("devtools")
install_github("ggthemes", "jrnold")

Windows users also must first install Rtools.

Contribute

Contributions are welcome! If you would like to add a theme, scales, etc., fork the repository, add your theme, and submit a pull request.

Examples

library("ggplot2")
library("ggthemes")
dsamp <- diamonds[sample(nrow(diamonds), 1000), ]

Tufte theme and geoms

Minimal theme and geoms based on plots in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

(ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point() + geom_rangeframe() + theme_tufte())

The Tufte minimal boxplot.

(ggplot(mtcars, aes(factor(cyl), mpg)) + theme_tufte(ticks = FALSE) + geom_tufteboxplot())

Economist theme

A theme that approximates the style of plots in The Economist magazine.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_economist() + scale_colour_economist() + 
    ggtitle("Diamonds Are Forever"))

Solarized theme

A theme and color and fill scales based on the Solarized palette.

The light theme.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_solarized() + scale_colour_solarized("blue"))

The dark theme.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_solarized(light = FALSE) + 
    scale_colour_solarized("red"))

An alternative theme.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_solarized_2() + scale_colour_solarized("blue"))

Stata theme

Themes and scales (color, fill, linetype, shapes) based on the graph schemes in Stata.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_stata() + scale_colour_stata() + 
    ggtitle("Plot Title"))

Excel 2003 theme

For that classic ugly look and feel. For ironic purposes only. 3D bars and pies not included. Please never use this theme.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_excel() + scale_colour_excel())

(ggplot(diamonds, aes(clarity, fill = cut)) + geom_bar() + scale_fill_excel() + 
    theme_excel())

Inverse Gray Theme

Inverse of theme_gray, i.e. white plot area and gray background.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_igray())

Tableau Scales

Color, fill, and shape scales based on those used in the Tableau softare.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_igray() + scale_colour_tableau())

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_igray() + scale_colour_tableau("colorblind10"))

Stephen Few's Practical Rules for Using Color ...

Color palette and theme based on Stephen Few's "Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts".

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_few() + scale_colour_few())

Wall Street Journal

Theme and some color palettes based on plots in the The Wall Street Journal.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = cut) + theme_wsj() + scale_colour_wsj("colors6", 
    "") + ggtitle("Diamond Prices"))

GDocs Theme

Theme and color palettes based on the defaults in Google Docs.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsamp, colour = clarity) + theme_gdocs() + ggtitle("Diamonds") + 
    scale_color_gdocs())

Calc Theme

Theme and color and shape palettes based on the defaults in LibreOffice Calc.

(qplot(carat, price, data = dsmall, colour = clarity) + theme_calc() + ggtitle("Diamonds") + 
    scale_color_calc())