ggthemes

5.2.0

Extra Themes, Scales and Geoms for 'ggplot2'

112packages depend

1.4Mdownloads / year

82.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeffrey B. ArnoldFirst published 2012-12-2228 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Some extra themes, geoms, and scales for 'ggplot2'. Provides 'ggplot2' themes and scales that replicate the look of plots by Edward Tufte, Stephen Few, 'Fivethirtyeight', 'The Economist', 'Stata', 'Excel', and 'The Wall Street Journal', among others. Provides 'geoms' for Tufte's box plot and range frame.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("ggthemes", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("jrnold/ggthemes")

Development version from jrnold/ggthemes. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-ggthemes

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-ggthemes

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-ggthemes

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.24

82.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 13%
References docs: 27%

Downloads

1.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #289 · ~3.9K/day · ~120K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jrnold/ggthemes

1,354Stars

224Forks

14Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

783Commits

36Contributors

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783 commits · Last activity 2025-12-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

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Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

data-raw/Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrAirRStudio project

Coverage (2)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (9)

ggplot2graphicsgridlifecyclemethodspurrr scales stringr tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (18)

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Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

112direct

3indirect

and 64 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 5,465 (53%)Rd 4,835 (47%)Markdown 24 (0%)Other 3 (0%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 24 max
Test cases: 152 / 0.24 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

83%

Expression

79.0%

Tests / Examples

82.9% / 81% ex

Functions

127 104 exported

Complexity

1.9 avg / 24 max

Call network

127 nodes / 81 edges

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Lowest coverage

127 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
extended_range_breaks exp	1	0%
extended_range_breaks_ exp	16	0%
scale_colour_colorblind exp	1	0%
smart_digits exp	2	0%
smart_digits_format exp	1	0%
theme_clean exp	1	0%

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Jeffrey B. Arnold

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jeffrey B. Arnold

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (9)

Baptise Auguie

Contributor · added in 2.1.2

Gergely Daroczi

Contributor · added in 2.1.0

Joshua Kunst

Contributor · added in 2.1.0

Joshua London

Contributor · added in 3.2.0

Bob Rudis

Contributor · added in 2.2.1

Justin Talbot

Contributor · added in 2.1.2

Brian Weitzner

Contributor · added in 2.1.0

Bo Werth

Contributor · added in 2.1.0

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Hadley Wickham

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-12-22
Total releases: 28 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Bundled data: 17 KB / 2 files
Download size: 634 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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