californiapolicylab / cplthemes

California Policy Lab's ggplot2 theme

README

Overview

cplthemes is an R package to construct visualizations in accordance with CPL’s style guide. Currently, the package supports basic ggplot visualizations. The package is inspired by the excellent Urban Institute’s urbnthemes package.

Installation

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("californiapolicylab/cplthemes")

Usage

For detailed usage see the CPL design guide documentation.

library(tidyverse)
library(cplthemes)

cpl_set_theme()

mtcars %>%
  count(cyl) %>%
  ggplot(mapping = aes(x = factor(cyl), y = n)) +
  geom_col(width = 0.5) +
  geom_text(mapping = aes(label = n), vjust = -0.5) +
  scale_y_continuous(expand = expansion(mult = c(0.002, 0)),
                     limits = c(0, 15)) +
  labs(x = "Cylinders",
       y = NULL,
       subtitle = "Number of Cars") +
  theme(plot.title.position = "plot")