R Increase or Decrease ggplot2 Point Border Thickness (Example Code)
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to modify the thickness of point borders in a ggplot2 scatterplot in R.
Preparing the Example
data(iris) # Loading iris data frame 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 ggplot2 package library("ggplot2") # Load ggplot2 |
ggplot(iris, # Draw ggplot2 scatterplot of iris aes(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width)) + geom_point(fill = "green", color = "orange", shape = 21, size = 5) |
Example: Control the Size of ggplot2 Point Borders
ggplot(iris, # Increased border size aes(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width)) + geom_point(fill = "green", color = "orange", shape = 21, size = 5, stroke = 3) # Using stroke argument |
