Suppression of axis labels

[geotheory]

Thanks for these super neat themes. Small suggestion:

p = ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Width, Sepal.Length)) + geom_point(); p
p + theme_fivethirtyeight() + labs(x = 'Width', h = 'Length')
p + theme_wsj() + labs(x = 'Width', h = 'Length')

Is it possible to re-enable axis labels if they're specified?

[jrnold]

Yes. Since the ggplot2 themes are extensible, you can think of them as starting points rather than end points. Add + theme(...) to the ggplot object to adjust whatever you'd like. See the ggplot2 docs on this for a much deeper explanation. In your case, here's how to add back axis titles,

library("ggplot2")
library("ggthemes")


p <- ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Width, Sepal.Length)) + geom_point(); p
p + theme_fivethirtyeight() + theme(axis.title = element_text()) + labs(x = 'Width', h = 'Length')
p + theme_wsj() + theme(axis.title = element_text()) +  labs(x = 'Width', h = 'Length')