R How to Draw Panel Borders to a ggplot2 Graph (Example Code)
In this R tutorial you’ll learn how to add panel borders to plots.
Setting up the Example
data(iris) # Iris data set head(iris) # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa |
data(iris) # Iris data set head(iris) # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
install.packages("ggplot2") # Install & load ggplot2 package library("ggplot2") |
install.packages("ggplot2") # Install & load ggplot2 package library("ggplot2")
my_plot <- ggplot(iris, # No border in ggplot2 graphic aes(x = Petal.Width, y = Petal.Length)) + geom_point() my_plot |
my_plot <- ggplot(iris, # No border in ggplot2 graphic aes(x = Petal.Width, y = Petal.Length)) + geom_point() my_plot
Example: Adding Panel Border to ggplot2 Graphic
my_plot + # Drawing border to graph theme(panel.border = element_rect(colour = "green", size = 8, fill = NA)) |
my_plot + # Drawing border to graph theme(panel.border = element_rect(colour = "green", size = 8, fill = NA))
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