theme_map: Create a theme for map plotting

In cowplot: Streamlined Plot Theme and Plot Annotations for 'ggplot2'

Description

The theme created by this function is useful for plotting maps with cowplot default sizing.

Usage

theme_map(
  font_size = 14,
  font_family = "",
  line_size = 0.5,
  rel_small = 12/14,
  rel_tiny = 11/14,
  rel_large = 16/14
)

Arguments

font_size	Overall font size. Default is 14.
font_family	Base font family.
line_size	Line size for axis lines.
rel_small	Relative size of small text (e.g., axis tick labels)
rel_tiny	Relative size of tiny text (e.g., caption)
rel_large	Relative size of large text (e.g., title)

Value

The theme.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
library(maps)

usa_data = map_data("usa")
ggplot(usa_data, aes(long, lat, fill = region)) +
  geom_polygon() + theme_map()
ggplot(usa_data, aes(long, lat, fill = region)) +
  facet_wrap(~region, scales = "free") +
  geom_polygon() + theme_map()

Example output

Loading required package: ggplot2

Attaching package: 'cowplot'

The following object is masked from 'package:ggplot2':

    ggsave

cowplot documentation built on Dec. 30, 2020, 5:07 p.m.