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Blank Theme with Coordinate Arrows

Source: R/theme.R
theme_blank.Rd

A minimalist ggplot2 theme that removes all panel elements and optionally adds coordinate arrows in the bottom-left corner. Ideal for UMAP / t-SNE embedding plots. Ported from thisplot::theme_blank.

Usage

theme_blank(
  add_coord = TRUE,
  xlen_npc = 0.15,
  ylen_npc = 0.15,
  xlab = "",
  ylab = "",
  lab_size = 12,
  ...
)

Arguments

add_coord

Logical. Whether to add coordinate arrows. Default is TRUE.

xlen_npc

Numeric. Length of the x-axis arrow in "npc" units.

ylen_npc

Numeric. Length of the y-axis arrow in "npc" units.

xlab

Character. Label for the x-axis arrow.

ylab

Character. Label for the y-axis arrow.

lab_size

Numeric. Font size of the axis labels.

...

Arguments passed to theme.

Value

A list of ggplot2 theme and annotation objects that can be added to a ggplot with +.

See also

Other ggplot2 themes: theme_km, theme_legend1(), theme_my(), theme_rcs, theme_sc()

Examples

library(ggplot2)
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = wt, y = mpg, colour = factor(cyl))) +
  geom_point()
p + theme_blank()

p + theme_blank(xlab = "UMAP1", ylab = "UMAP2", lab_size = 14)