WSJ Plot

Make ggplot graphs that look like the Wall Street Journal.

Example using wsjplot

Quick Use

Install from CRAN

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Install from GitHub

 > devtools::install_github("slee981/wsjplot")

Make plot

 > library(ggplot2)
 > library(dplyr)
 > `%>%` <- magrittr::`%>%`

 > economics_long %>%
       filter(variable %in% c("psavert", "uempmed")) %>%
       ggplot(aes(date, value, color = variable)) +
       geom_line() +
       scale_y_continuous(
           labels = label_wsj(suffix = " M")
       ) +
       scale_color_discrete(
           labels = c("Series 1", "Series 2")
       ) +
       theme_wsj() +
       labs(
           title = "Some Economics Plot",
           caption = "Source: Top secret.",
           y = ""
       )

Functions

theme_wsj(): Sets the default theme. Use as you would any ggplot2::theme_choice().
label_wsj(): Formats y-axis ticks such that the top number on the graph has the units, and the rest of the numbers are left visually clean. This also removes the bottom most axis label by default, although this can be overridden. Use in place of any scales::label_choice().

Contribute

From your terminal:

$ git clone https://github.com/slee981/wsjplot.git
$ cd wsjplot

In RStudio:

 > library(devtools)
 > load_all()              # load exported functions into memory 
 > test()                  # run tests
 > document()              # update based on roxygen2 doc strings
 > check()                 # full diagnostic tests