Overview

Some extra geoms, scales, and themes for ggplot, including:

Geoms

• geom_rangeframe : Tufte’s range frame
• geom_tufteboxplot: Tufte’s box plot

Themes

• theme_base: a theme resembling the default base graphics in R. See also theme_par.
• theme_calc: a theme based on LibreOffice Calc.
• theme_economist: a theme based on the plots in the The Economist magazine.
• theme_excel: a theme replicating the classic ugly gray charts in Excel
• theme_few: theme from Stephen Few’s “Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts”.
• theme_fivethirtyeight: a theme based on the plots at fivethirtyeight.com.
• theme_gdocs: a theme based on Google Docs.
• theme_hc: a theme based on Highcharts JS.
• theme_par: a theme that uses the current values of the base graphics parameters in par.
• theme_pander: a theme to use with the pander package.
• theme_solarized: a theme using the solarized color palette.
• theme_stata: themes based on Stata graph schemes.
• theme_tufte: a minimal ink theme based on Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
• theme_wsj: a theme based on the plots in the The Wall Street Journal.

Scales

• scale_colour_calc, scale_shape_calc: color and shape palettes from LibreOffice Calc.
• scale_colour_colorblind: Colorblind safe palette from http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/.
• scale_colour_economist: colors used in plots in plots in The Economist.
• scale_colour_excel: colors from new and old Excel.
• scale_colour_few: color palettes from Stephen Few’s “Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts”.
• scale_colour_gdocs: color palette from Google Docs.
• scale_colour_hc: a theme based on Highcharts JS.
• scale_colour_solarized: Solarized colors
• scale_colour_stata, scale_shapes_stata, scale_linetype_stata: color, shape, and linetype palettes from Stata graph schemes.
• scale_colour_tableau, scale_shape_tableau: color and shape palettes from Tableau.
• scale_colour_pander, scale_fill_pander: scales to use with the pander package.
• scale_colour_ptol, scale_fill_ptol: color palettes from Paul Tol’s Colour Schemes
• scale_shape_cleveland, scale_shape_tremmel, scale_shape_circlefill: shape scales from classic works in visual perception: Cleveland, Tremmel (1995), and Lewandowsky and Spence (1989).

Most of these scales also have associates palettes, as used in the scales package.

Miscellaneous

• bank_slopes: Find the optimal aspect ratio to bank slopes to 45 degrees