README.md

In msberends/plot3: Creating 'ggplot2' Plots With Less Code

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plot3

The goal of plot3 is to generating ggplot2 plots with less code. While ggplot2 focusses on adding functions to create advanced plots (leading to a lot of repetitive code), plot3 focusses on only adding arguments to create advanced plots.

In short, plot3 provides:

• A convenient wrapper around many ggplot2 functions, losing the need to write functions such as ggplot(), geom_col(), facet_wrap(), labs(), etc. over and over again
• Writing as few lines of codes as possible
• A drop-in replacement for most base R plot() calls
• Benefits from Excel: the y axis starts at 0, the y scale contains extra space to read all data points, date breaks can be written in a readable format such as “d mmm yyyy”, and data labels can easily be printed
• Easy plotting in three ‘directions’: x (the regular x axis), category (replaces ‘fill’ and ‘colour’) and facet
• Easy way for sorting data in may ways (such as on alphabet, numeric value, frequency, original data order), by setting a single argument for the ‘direction’: x.sort, category.sort and facet.sort
• Easy limiting values for x by setting x.max_items
• Markdown support for any label, with any theme
• An extra clean, minimalistic theme with a lot of whitespace that is ideal for printing

Installation

You can install the released version of plot3 from CRAN with:

install.packages("plot3")

And the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("msberends/plot3")

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

library(plot3)
#> Loading required package: ggplot2
## basic example code

msberends/plot3 documentation built on Dec. 21, 2021, 10:10 p.m.