MKHthemes

Statement of need

The default appearance of ggplot2 graphics is unattractive. Tick marks point outward (away from the data). Grid lines are provided (are we in jail?). Borders are black (taking focus away from the data). The background color is gray, not white.

This package (MKHthemes) provides a nice-looking theme for ggplot2 graphs, solving the problems identified above.

Installation

You can install MKHthemes from GitHub with:

# install devtools if not already installed
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("MatthewHeun/MKHthemes")
# To build vignettes locally, use
devtools::install_github("MatthewHeun/MKHthemes", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Examples

Out of the box, [ggplot2] graphs look like this:

library(ggplot2)

ggplot2::ggplot(mpg, ggplot2::aes(x = displ, 
                                  y = hwy, 
                                  colour = class)) +
  geom_point()

To improve the graph, do the following:

ggplot2::ggplot(mpg, ggplot2::aes(x = displ, 
                                  y = hwy, 
                                  colour = class)) +
  geom_point() + 
  MKHthemes::xy_theme()

More Information

Find more information, including vignettes and function documentation, at https://MatthewHeun.github.io/MKHthemes/.