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Going Deeper with R (v1)
Use Color in Titles to Highlight Findings
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Your Turn
Use color in your title to highlight your main finding. You’ll need to:
Add HTML in the
labs()
function to add the titleChange the
plot.title
argument in thetheme()
function so that it interprets the HTML correctly
Learn More
If you want to read about everything the ggtext
package can do, here’s its documentation website. The package’s author, Claus Wilke, also gave a talk at rstudio::conf 2020 about it.
Hopefully I’ve convinced you that you don’t need to know much HTML in order to use the ggtext
package. If you do want to learn a bit more, the HTML tutorials on W3schools.com are a great place to start. Here’s the page on the span
tag if you just want to check that out.
If you want to see the the list of named colors in R, it’s here. All named colors in R should also work in HTML. So, for example, if you have a line that is blue, adding <span style='color: blue'>Title Text</span>
will make your title that same shade of blue.
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Abby Isaacson
May 18, 2021
Does this html code work to change colors/lines in PDF and Word output as well?
Harold Stanislaw
May 20, 2021
Made the school name bold (as well as colored) by adding to the html.
Atlang Mompe
June 24, 2021
HI David should this plot.title be this: plot.title = element_markdown(face = "bold")) + , we need to change it to element_markdown and also put the second brackets after bold.
On your solutions code you have this: plot.title = element_text(face = "bold") +
Please confirm - unless ofcourse it worked on your machine.
David Keyes Founder
January 14, 2022
Yep! I usually use a default theme like theme_ipsum() and add some customizations using the theme() function.
Elijah Phillips
November 30, 2022
I get "could not find function 'element_markdown'". I have loaded tidyverse and scales. I even tried copying and pasting to code from the solution...