Publication-Quality 'ggplot2' Visualisation

Wrapper 'ggplot2' functions for publication-quality visualisation. Aligned with 'ggplot2' and 'tidyverse'. Covers much of what 'ggplot2' does.

ggblanket

Objective

ggblanket is a package of ggplot2 wrapper functions for publication-quality visualisation. It seeks to support well-designed visualisation, while aligning as much as possible with ggplot2 and tidyverse conventions.

Installation

Install from CRAN, or development version from GitHub.

install.packages("ggblanket") 
pak::pak("davidhodge931/ggblanket")

Example

library(ggblanket)
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

set_blanket()

iris |>
  gg_point(
    x = Sepal.Width,
    y = Sepal.Length,
    fill = Species,
    shape = Species,
  )

ggplot2::economics_long |>
  gg_area(
    x = date,
    y = value01,
    facet_wrap = variable,
  )

How it works

Use the gg_*() wrapper functions to:

Plot a ggplot and geom layer in a single function
Map aesthetic and facet variables as bare names
Get colour and colour_* arguments inherited from fill and fill_* arguments
Change scale arguments easily with prefixed arguments
If lower x/y scale limit is zero, get default scale expansion of ggplot2::expansion(c(0, 0.5))
Access to other arguments within relevant geom_* function via ...
Get global set_blanket() setting defaults.

Use the global setup function, set_blanket(), to:

Adjust the global theme
Adjust the global option for how themes are to be refined based on plot scale types etc
Adjust the global theme fill, colour, linewidth, shape, linetype, size, stroke
Adjust the global theme fill_palette, colour_palette, shape_palette and linetype_palette
Adjust the global option for colour_border, which is a function to transform the colour and colour_palette with input of the fill and fill_palette respectively
Adjust the global option for fill_border, which is a function to transform the fill and fill_palette with input of the colour and colour_palette respectively