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ggplot_tricks: A Collection of ggplot2 Tips 💯

By Teun van den Brand

Added Thu Feb 20, 2025

What is this?

ggplot_tricks is a repository that compiles various tips and techniques for enhancing data visualizations using ggplot2 in R. It covers topics such as splicing aesthetics, creating half-geoms, setting midpoints in diverging scales, labeling points, and recycling plots. Here is a list of them to this date:

• Splicing aesthetics

  1. Colour-fill relations

  2. Text contrast

• Half-geoms

  1. Half-boxplots

  2. Half-errorbars

  3. Half-violin

  4. Combining

• Midpoints in diverging scales
• Labels as text

  1. Labelling points

  2. (Outdated)Facetted tags

• Recycling plots

  1. Functions

  2. Skeletons

  3. Ribcage

1. Link to repository: https://github.com/teunbrand/ggplot_tricks