[R-sig-eco] Having issue trying to get plot to have plain-white background

Altaf Hussain @|t@|2 @end|ng |rom u@|bert@@c@
Sat Jun 15 18:36:14 CEST 2019


I find the following code really helpful to further play with theme_bw()

myplot + theme_bw() + theme(panel.border = element_blank(),
panel.grid.major = element_blank(),
panel.grid.minor = element_blank(), axis.line = element_line(colour =
"black"))

Cheers,
Altaf

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 10:26 AM Mollie Brooks <mollieebrooks using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
>
> I like to use this line by default so that all the plots have white
> backgrounds.
>
> library(ggplot2); theme_set(theme_bw())
>
> I’m sure it’s also possible to use theme_bw() on individual plots somehow,
> but I haven’t tried.
>
> cheers,
> Mollie
>
> > On 15Jun 2019, at 18:16, Bruce Miller <batsncats using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all, This is not directly an R-Ecology question but neither the
> > general R help forum nor GGplot forums has any responses.
> > This is an ecology based application however LOL
> >
> >
> > I need to save plots for a publication but can not seem to get he syntax
> > correct to have GGPLOT use only a white background vs. the default gray
> one.
> >
> > I have tried the various themes but nothing seems to work.
> > This is the existing code for the plot and followed by what I have tried
> > to no avail.
> >
> > Works with gray plot frame backgrounds
> >
> >
> > ggplot(polished, aes(x =Night, y = Time, colour = Species)) +
> >
> > geom_point() +
> >
> > **scale_colour_hue(l=40)+
> >
> > ggtitle(label = ' Linderos temporal activity')+
> >
> > facet_grid(. ~ Night) +facet_wrap(facets = ~Species)+
> >
> > scale_y_continuous(labels = label_hours, breaks = break_hours) +
> >
> > theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 270))
> >
> > Trying theme bw does not seem to work!
> > I did also load one of the "themes" packages to see if that was the
> > issue.  Not.
> >
> > ggplot(polished, aes(x =Night, y = Time, colour = Species)) +
> >
> > geom_point() +
> >
> > **scale_colour_hue(l=40)+
> >
> > ggtitle(label = 'Temporal activty')+
> >
> > facet_grid(. ~ Night) +facet_wrap(facets = ~Species)+
> >
> > scale_y_continuous(labels = label_hours, breaks = break_hours) +
> >
> > *theme_b**w*(axis.text.x=element_text(angle = 270))
> >
> >
> > Any guidance on correct syntax/usage to plot clean-white plot back
> > ground  welcomed.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
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