README.md

ggplotJrnold

Some extra themes and scales for ggplot,

Geoms

• Tufte range frame
• Tufte box plot

Themes

• Tufte minimal ink theme
• Solarized
• Stata themes
• The Economist
• Excel (the ugly gray background one)

Scales

• Solarized colors
• The Economist colors.
• Stata colors, shapes, and linetypes
• Excel colors (old and new)
• Tableau colors and shapes
• Shape scales from William S. Cleveland's Elements of Graphing Data, Tremmel (1995), and Lewandowsky and Spence (1989).
• Color scale based on Stephen Few's "Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts".

Install

It is probably easiest to use the devtools package to install the latest version:

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

Examples

library("ggplot2")
library("ggplotJrnold")
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"))

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_excel2003() + 
    scale_colour_excel2003())

(ggplot(diamonds, aes(clarity, fill = cut)) + geom_bar() + scale_fill_excel2003() + 
    theme_excel2003())

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())