ggplot: theme capability

Non data elements of the plot is controlled by theme system.

theme give you control over things like fonts in all parts of the plot: title, axis labels, axis tick labels, strips ,

legends labels, legend key labels, color of ticks, grid lines, backgrounds(panel, plot, strip, legend)

1. built-in theme:

theme_gray()

theme_bw()

globally, affecting all plots when they are drawn: theme_set(theme_grey()) or theme_set(theme_bw())(note: this will return previous theme) 

locally, qplot(...)+theme_grey()

2. theme elements:

a theme made up of multiple elements which control appearance of a single item on the plot.

four basic built-in element functions: text, lines, rect,  and blank

element_text: draw labels and headings: control font family, face, color, size, hjust, vjust, angle, lineheight

element_line()

8.2 Customising scales:

set_default_scale(the name of the aesthetic, the type of variable(discrete or continuous) and the name of the scale to use as default

e.g. set_default_scale("color","discrete","grey")

set_default_scale("fill","discrete","grey")

set_default_scale("color",“continuous","gradient",low="white",high="black")

geoms and stats

e.g. update_geom_defaults("point",aes(color="darkblue"))

update_stat_defaults("bin",aes(y=..density..))

save plots:

1. ggsave(path,width=..,height=..,dpi=...)

8.4 multiple plots on the same page

use grid

viewport:a rectangular subregion of the display. The default viewport takes up the entire plotting region, and by
customising the viewport you can arrange a set of plots in just about any way
you can imagine