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Ggplot theme for Ipea charts and figures

Source: R/theme_ipea.R
theme_ipea.Rd

Applies a custom theme for ggplot figures following the editorial guidelines used by the Institute for Applied Economic Research - Ipea. The function includes standardized formatting of options for axis lines, text,

Usage

theme_ipea(
  axis_lines = "full",
  axis_values = TRUE,
  legend.position = "right",
  grid.adjust = "horizontal",
  x_breaks = NULL,
  y_breaks = NULL,
  expand_x_limit = TRUE,
  expand_y_limit = TRUE,
  x_text_angle = 0,
  include_x_text_title = TRUE,
  include_y_text_title = TRUE,
  include_ticks = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

axis_lines

A character vector specifying the axis style. Valid options are "none" (no axis lines), "full" (full-length axis lines), and "half" (half-length axis lines), the default.

axis_values

Logical value indicating whether to show text elements. If TRUE, axis text will be displayed in black; otherwise, they will be hidden.

legend.position

A character vector specifying the position of the legend. Valid options are "right" (default), "left", "top", and "bottom".

grid.adjust

Defines whether the grid lines should be "horizontal" (default) or "vertical".

x_breaks

Numeric. The number of breaks on the x-axis

y_breaks

Numeric. The number of breaks on the y-axis

expand_x_limit

Logical value that indicates whether the x-axis boundary should be expanded. If TRUE, the x-axis limits will be expanded; otherwise there will be no change

expand_y_limit

Logical value that indicates whether the y-axis boundary should be expanded. If TRUE, the x-axis limits will be expanded; otherwise there will be no change

x_text_angle

Numeric. Angle in degrees of the text in the x-axis.

include_x_text_title

Logical. Whether to include x text title Defaults to TRUE.

include_y_text_title

Logical. Whether to include x text title. Defaults to TRUE.

include_ticks

Logical. Whether to include ticks. Defaults to TRUE.

...

Additional arguments to be passed to the theme function from the ggplot2 package.

Value

A custom theme for IPEA graphics.

See also

Other ggplot2 theme functions: scale_color_ipea(), scale_fill_ipea()

Examples

# Creating theme for ggplot2 graph using default arguments
library(ggplot2)
fig_raw <- ggplot() +
  geom_col(data = mtcars, aes(x = hp , y = mpg, fill = cyl)) +
  theme_ipea()