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:
[gist https://gist.github.com/8a0efe2b120ac01f2526a79f2ab33678 /]
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.