ggthemes

Overview

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

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_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 Economist magazine.

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_shape_cleveland, scale_shape_tremmel, scale_shape_circlefill: shape scales from classic works in visual perception: Cleveland, Tremmel (1995), and Lewandowsky and Spence (1989).
scale_x_tufte, scale_y_tufte: x and y scales with pretty labels that also include the min and max values.

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

To install the stable version from CRAN,

install.packages('ggthemes', dependencies = TRUE)

Or, to install the development version from github, use the devtools package,

library("devtools")
install_github("jrnold/ggthemes")

Windows users also must first install Rtools.

Contributions are welcome! If you would like to add a theme, scales, etc., fork the repository, add your theme, and submit a pull request.