cleanplots theme for ggplot2

A ggplot2 theme with the non-color settings of my Stata cleanplots scheme: a white background, no border around the plot, light gray axis lines and ticks, dotted light gray gridlines, and a legend at the right with no frame.

Usage

theme_cleanplots(base_size = 12, base_family = "", legend_position = "right")

Arguments

base_size

Base font size in points (default: 12, sized to match the body text of an academic article when the figure is saved at 7 x 5 inches; see cleanplots_save()).

base_family

Base font family (default: "").

legend_position

Position of the legend (default: "right", vertically centered). Set to "none" to remove, or any value accepted by ggplot2::theme(legend.position = ...).

Value

A ggplot2 theme object.

Details

Correspondence to the Stata scheme file:

  • White background (color background white)

  • No plot region border (linestyle plotregion none)

  • Light gray axis lines and ticks (color axisline gs13, etc.)

  • Dotted gs10 major gridlines, horizontal and vertical (draw_major_hgrid yes, draw_major_vgrid yes, linepattern major_grid dot, color major_grid gs10)

  • No minor gridlines

  • Legend at the right, single column, no frame, no title (clockdir legend_position 3, numstyle legend_cols 1, linestyle legend none)

  • Horizontal y-axis tick labels (anglestyle vertical_tick horizontal)

  • Facet strips: black-outlined, unfilled boxes with bold labels

Examples

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(iris, aes(x = Sepal.Length, y = Sepal.Width, color = Species)) +
  geom_point(size = 2) +
  theme_cleanplots() +
  scale_color_cleanplots()

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