Essential Elements

A plot is made of different components such as data, axis, title, legend… and has different elements such as colour, shape linetype… Each of these components and elements can be changed and customized. Click on the figure to get information on how to change each component.

Here I want a clickable image, where you can click on the different components of a plot. In the according chapter you can see what and how to change things.

Here is a list of things that should be explained. What else do we need here?

Titles, axis text/labels

• add, remove and change axis labels, add units
• add title, subtitles, tags
• change size, colour, position

Axis limits and ticks (scale_)

• Remove/add customize axis values
• change axis ticks position, labels, …
• change size and colour
• tansform, reverse
• add second axis

Scales: changing colour, shape, lines,…

• customize colour, shape,… scale_colour_...()
• colour brewer etc. (we could also have a chapter on colours)
• …

Legend

• change legend position (top, bottom, inside plot)
• change legend title, labels
• remove legend
• remove parts of the legend

faceting things: labels, free axis, facet grid/wrap

• facet wrap and grid
• free scales
• change labels on facets
• space between panels?

theme options: change grid, …

• change themes (minial, bw,…)
• change elements of the grid manually
• change all sorts of things: text, etc for the whole plot

Change the data

• add data (e.g. add a regression line to the plot)
• add mean values using a second geom_point()

Change the plot type

• geoms

Save plots

• ggsave