ggplot2 themes examples

this short post is exactly what it seems: a showcase of all ggplot2 themes available within the ggplot2 package. I was doing such a list for myself ( you know that feeling …”how would it look like with this theme? let’s try this one…”) and at the end I thought it could have be useful for my readers. At least this post will save you the time of trying all differents themes just to have a sense of how they look like.

Enjoy!

theme_bw()

theme_classic()

theme_dark()

theme_gray()

theme_grey()

theme_light()

theme_linedraw()

theme_minimal()

Bonus Track: The Code

Since copy and pasting and right-clicking 9 times to produce all the plots was definitely not acceptable, starting from a good post by Tony Cookson I wrote a small function to dinamically create and save a png file with different name and content:

	library(dplyr)
	library(ggplot2)
	create_file <- function(name){
	path <- paste(getwd(),"/",name,".png",sep = '') %>%
	file.path() %>% png(,width=960,height=480)
	}
	#this is the template: change the theme (and the name argument) to produce the other plots
	create_file(name = "theme_bw")
	ggplot(data=diamonds, aes(carat,price ))+
	geom_point(aes(colour= color))+
	theme_bw()
	dev.off()

view raw dynamic_plot.R hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Final notes

Inner ggplot2 structure allows for a nearly infinite number of customizations and extensions.You can have a sense of what I am talking about looking at ggplot2 extensions website or to the ggthemes package vignette by the package author  Jeffrey B. Arnold.

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