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House theme for publication figures

Source: R/style.R
gfplot_theme.Rd

The theme every gfplot figure is drawn with: bold axis titles, a thin major grid, a panel border, and a horizontal legend under the panel. Sizes derive from base_size, so one number rescales the figure.

Usage

gfplot_theme(
  base_size = 11,
  font = "Arial",
  grid = TRUE,
  border = TRUE,
  legend = c("bottom", "right", "top", "left", "none"),
  margin = c(9, 10, 8, 10)
)

Arguments

base_size

Base font size in points. Other sizes are derived from it.

font

Font family. Defaults to Arial.

grid

Draw the major grid.

border

Draw the panel border.

legend

Legend position, one of "bottom", "right", "top", "left", or "none".

margin

Plot margin in points, in the order top, right, bottom, left.

Value

A ggplot2 theme object.

Details

This theme is also the session baseline: attaching gfplot sets it as the global ggplot2 theme so that figures drawn by other packages match. Set options(gfplot.set_theme = FALSE) before library(gfplot) to keep an existing theme instead.

See also

gfplot_colors() for the colours that go with it.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
  geom_point() +
  gfplot_theme()