theme_blank: Blank theme

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Blank theme

Description

This function creates a theme with all elements blank except for axis lines and labels. It can optionally add coordinate axes in the plot.

Usage

theme_blank(
  add_coord = TRUE,
  xlen_npc = 0.15,
  ylen_npc = 0.15,
  xlab = "",
  ylab = "",
  lab_size = 12,
  ...
)

Arguments

add_coord	Whether to add coordinate arrows. Default is TRUE.
xlen_npc	The length of the x-axis arrow in "npc".
ylen_npc	The length of the y-axis arrow in "npc".
xlab	The label of the x-axis.
ylab	The label of the y-axis.
lab_size	The size of the axis labels.
...	Arguments passed to the ggplot2::theme.

Value

A list containing ggplot2 theme objects and annotation objects. If add_coord is TRUE, returns a list with coordinate arrows; otherwise returns a list with theme only.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = wt, y = mpg, colour = factor(cyl))) +
  geom_point()
p + theme_blank()
p + theme_blank(xlab = "x-axis", ylab = "y-axis", lab_size = 16)

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