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Advanced Data Wrangling
- Downloading and Importing Data
- Overview of Tidy Data
- Tidy Data Rule #1: Every Column is a Variable
- Tidy Data Rule #3: Every Cell is a Single Value
- Tidy Data Rule #2: Every Row is an Observation
- Changing Variable Types
- Dealing with Missing Data
- Advanced Summarizing
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- Exporting Data
- Bring It All Together (Advanced Data Wrangling)
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Advanced Data Visualization
- Best Practices in Data Visualization
- Tidy Data
- Pipe Data into ggplot
- Reorder Plots to Highlight Findings
- Line Charts
- Use Color to Highlight Findings
- Declutter
- Add Descriptive Labels to Your Plots
- Use Titles to Highlight Findings
- Use Annotations to Explain
- Tweak Spacing
- Create a Custom Theme
- Customize Your Fonts
- Try New Plot Types
- Bring it All Together (Advanced Data Visualization)
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Going Deeper with R
Customize Your Theme
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This lesson is called Customize Your Theme, part of the Going Deeper with R course. This lesson is called Customize Your Theme, part of the Going Deeper with R course.
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Your Turn
Make your own theme by combining elements of the
theme()function and/or themes from other packages (e.g.theme_ipsum())Add this theme to your plot, removing any code that is now redundant
Learn More
If you want to see a bunch of complete themes ready for your use, I've written a blog post that may be of interest to you. If you want to dive deep on creating custom themes, Andrew Heiss has some great materials here.
If you have trouble, as I do, remembering the various theme elements, this blog post from Henry Wang has a nice overview to help you.
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Catherine Roller White
May 15, 2021
This is great. What's the best way to store and retrieve code for your customized themes? Do you have some sort of generic .R file that you'd retrieve it from for each project?