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ggdatalab

ggdatalab is a small ggplot2 extension that provides:

a consistent theme (theme_datalab())
discrete and continuous colour scales built from a fixed palette
simple palette helpers for reuse outside ggplot

The package is written to be R CMD check clean and suitable for CRAN submission.

Installation

CRAN

When available on CRAN:

install.packages("ggdatalab")

Development version (GitHub)

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("kubdatalab/ggdatalab", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Quick start

library(ggplot2)
library(ggdatalab)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, colour = hp)) +
  geom_point(size = 3) +
  scale_colour_datalab_c() +
  theme_datalab()

What’s included

Theme

theme_datalab()

A minimal theme based on theme_minimal() with restrained grid lines and sensible typography defaults.

Discrete colour scales

scale_fill_datalab_d()
scale_colour_datalab_d()
scale_color_datalab_d() (US spelling)

Continuous colour scales

scale_fill_datalab_c()
scale_colour_datalab_c()
scale_color_datalab_c() (US spelling)

Palette helpers

datalab_cols()
datalab_pal(type = c("discrete", "continuous"))

Vignette

vignette("using-ggdatalab")

Or:

browseVignettes("ggdatalab")

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Please include a minimal reproducible example when reporting bugs.