Reputation: 13103
I would like to reproduce the plot immediately below by using ggplot2. I can come close, but cannot remove the top and right borders. Below I present several attempts using ggplot2, including several suggestions found on or via Stackoverflow. Unfortunately I have not been able to get those suggestions to work.
I am hoping someone may be able to correct one or more of the code snippets below.
Thank you for any suggestions.
# desired plot
a <- seq(1,20)
b <- a^0.25
plot(a,b, bty = "l")
library(ggplot2)
df <- as.data.frame(cbind(a,b))
# 1. ggplot2 default
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point()
# 2. removes background color
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black'))
# 3. also removes gridlines
none <- theme_blank()
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black')) + opts(panel.grid.major = none, panel.grid.minor = none)
# 4. does not remove top and right border
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black')) + opts(panel.grid.major = none, panel.grid.minor = none) + opts(panel.border = none)
# 5. does not remove top and right border
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black')) + opts(panel.grid.major = none, panel.grid.minor = none) + opts(axis.line = theme_segment())
# 6. removes x and y axis in addition to top and right border
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5458409/remove-top-and-right-border-from-ggplot2
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black')) + opts(panel.grid.major = none, panel.grid.minor = none) + opts(panel.background=theme_rect(colour=NA))
# 7. returns error when attempting to remove top and right border
# https://groups.google.com/group/ggplot2/browse_thread/thread/f998d113638bf251
#
# Error in el(...) : could not find function "polylineGrob"
#
theme_L_border <- function(colour = "black", size = 1, linetype = 1) {
structure(
function(x = 0, y = 0, width = 1, height = 1, ...) {
polylineGrob(
x=c(x+width, x, x), y=c(y,y,y+height), ..., default.units = "npc",
gp=gpar(lwd=size, col=colour, lty=linetype),
)
},
class = "theme",
type = "box",
call = match.call()
)
}
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() + opts(panel.background = theme_rect(fill='white', colour='black')) + opts(panel.grid.major = none, panel.grid.minor = none) + opts( panel.border = theme_L_border())
Upvotes: 155
Views: 321299
Reputation: 2859
You may be check also panel.background
as well.
theme(
panel.background = element_rect(fill = "black"),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(), panel.grid.minor = element_blank()
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 32789
EDIT Ignore this answer. There are now better answers. See the comments. Use + theme_classic()
EDIT
This is a better version. The bug mentioned below in the original post remains (I think). But the axis line is drawn under the panel. Therefore, remove both the panel.border
and panel.background
to see the axis lines.
library(ggplot2)
a <- seq(1,20)
b <- a^0.25
df <- data.frame(a,b)
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() +
theme_bw() +
theme(axis.line = element_line(colour = "black"),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.border = element_blank(),
panel.background = element_blank())
Original post
This gets close. There was a bug with axis.line
not working on the y-axis (see here), that appears not to be fixed yet. Therefore, after removing the panel border, the y-axis has to be drawn in separately using geom_vline
.
library(ggplot2)
library(grid)
a <- seq(1,20)
b <- a^0.25
df <- data.frame(a,b)
p = ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() +
scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0,0)) +
scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0,0)) +
theme_bw() +
opts(axis.line = theme_segment(colour = "black"),
panel.grid.major = theme_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = theme_blank(),
panel.border = theme_blank()) +
geom_vline(xintercept = 0)
p
The extreme points are clipped, but the clipping can be undone using code by baptiste.
gt <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(p))
gt$layout$clip[gt$layout$name=="panel"] <- "off"
grid.draw(gt)
Or use limits
to move the boundaries of the panel.
ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point() +
xlim(0,22) + ylim(.95, 2.1) +
scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0,0), limits = c(0,22)) +
scale_y_continuous(expand = c(0,0), limits = c(.95, 2.2)) +
theme_bw() +
opts(axis.line = theme_segment(colour = "black"),
panel.grid.major = theme_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = theme_blank(),
panel.border = theme_blank()) +
geom_vline(xintercept = 0)
Upvotes: 199
Reputation: 52198
Here's an extremely simple answer
yourPlot +
theme(
panel.border = element_blank(),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
axis.line = element_line(colour = "black")
)
It's that easy. Source: the end of this article
Upvotes: 5
Reputation: 9180
Recent updates to ggplot (0.9.2+) have overhauled the syntax for themes. Most notably, opts()
is now deprecated, having been replaced by theme()
. Sandy's answer will still (as of Jan '12) generates a chart, but causes R to throw a bunch of warnings.
Here's updated code reflecting current ggplot syntax:
library(ggplot2)
a <- seq(1,20)
b <- a^0.25
df <- as.data.frame(cbind(a,b))
#base ggplot object
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b))
p +
#plots the points
geom_point() +
#theme with white background
theme_bw() +
#eliminates background, gridlines, and chart border
theme(
plot.background = element_blank(),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(),
panel.border = element_blank()
) +
#draws x and y axis line
theme(axis.line = element_line(color = 'black'))
generates:
Upvotes: 84
Reputation: 10340
The above options do not work for maps created with sf
and geom_sf()
. Hence, I want to add the relevant ndiscr
parameter here. This will create a nice clean map showing only the features.
library(sf)
library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
geom_sf(data = some_shp) +
theme_minimal() + # white background
theme(axis.text = element_blank(), # remove geographic coordinates
axis.ticks = element_blank()) + # remove ticks
coord_sf(ndiscr = 0) # remove grid in the background
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 497
Simplification from the above Andrew's answer leads to this key theme to generate the half border.
theme (panel.border = element_blank(),
axis.line = element_line(color='black'))
Upvotes: 4
Reputation: 17790
An alternative to theme_classic()
is the theme that comes with the cowplot package, theme_cowplot()
(loaded automatically with the package). It looks similar to theme_classic()
, with a few subtle differences. Most importantly, the default label sizes are larger, so the resulting figures can be used in publications without further modifications needed (in particular if you save them with save_plot()
instead of ggsave()
). Also, the background is transparent, not white, which may be useful if you want to edit the figure in illustrator. Finally, faceted plots look better, in my opinion.
Example:
library(cowplot)
a <- seq(1,20)
b <- a^0.25
df <- as.data.frame(cbind(a,b))
p <- ggplot(df, aes(x = a, y = b)) + geom_point()
save_plot('plot.png', p) # alternative to ggsave, with default settings that work well with the theme
This is what the file plot.png
produced by this code looks like:
Disclaimer: I'm the package author.
Upvotes: 30
Reputation: 1515
I followed Andrew's answer, but I also had to follow https://stackoverflow.com/a/35833548 and set the x and y axes separately due to a bug in my version of ggplot (v2.1.0).
Instead of
theme(axis.line = element_line(color = 'black'))
I used
theme(axis.line.x = element_line(color="black", size = 2),
axis.line.y = element_line(color="black", size = 2))
Upvotes: 8