https://github.com/eliocamp/ggnewscale
Multiple Fill, Color and Other Scales in `ggplot2`
https://github.com/eliocamp/ggnewscale
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Multiple Fill, Color and Other Scales in `ggplot2`
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/eliocamp/ggnewscale
- Owner: eliocamp
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2018-12-15T18:50:10.000Z (about 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-02-24T09:23:23.000Z (11 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-01T10:06:21.128Z (10 months ago)
- Topics: ggplot2, r, r-package, rstats
- Language: TeX
- Homepage: https://eliocamp.github.io/ggnewscale/
- Size: 9.94 MB
- Stars: 414
- Watchers: 10
- Forks: 18
- Open Issues: 4
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.Rmd
- Changelog: NEWS.md
- License: LICENSE.md
Awesome Lists containing this project
- awesome-ggplot2 - ggnewscale
README
---
output: github_document
knit: (function(input, ...) devtools::build_readme())
---
```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
collapse = TRUE,
comment = "#>",
fig.path = "man/figures/README-"
)
```
# ggnewscale 
[](https://github.com/eliocamp/ggnewscale/actions)
[](https://app.codecov.io/gh/eliocamp/ggnewscale?branch=master)
[](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/161934647)
[](https://cran.r-project.org/package=ggnewscale)
`ggnewscale` tries to make it painless to use multiple scales in `ggplot2`. Although originally intended to use with colour and fill, it should work with any `aes`, such as `shape`, `linetype` and the rest.
[ggnewscale: spend 400% more time tweaking your ggplot!](https://web.archive.org/web/20220511154749/https://twitter.com/mattansb/status/1524415881920528385)
For another way of defining multiple scales, you can also try [relayer](https://github.com/clauswilke/relayer).
## How to install
You can install ggnewscale from CRAN with:
```{r CRAN-installation, eval = FALSE}
install.packages("ggnewscale")
```
Or the development version with:
```r
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("eliocamp/ggnewscale")
```
## How to cite
If you use ggnewscale in a publication, I'll be grateful if you cited it. To get the suggested citation for this (and any other R package) you can use:
```{r}
citation("ggnewscale")
```
If you use knitr, [you can automate this](https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/write-bib.html) with
```r
knitr::write_bib(c("ggnewscale"), "packages.bib")
```
And then add citations with `@R-ggnewscale`.
Click to see a list of some publications that have cited ggnewscale. Thanks!
```{r echo=FALSE, message=FALSE, warning=FALSE, results='asis'}
bib <- "ggnewscale-cited.bib"
RefManageR::ReadBib(bib)
```
## Usage
The main function is `new_scale()` and its aliases `new_scale_color()` and `new_scale_fill()`. When added to a plot, every geom added after them will use a different scale.
As an example, let's overlay some measurements over a contour map of topography using the beloved `volcano`.
```{r}
library(ggplot2)
library(ggnewscale)
# Equivalent to melt(volcano)
topography <- expand.grid(x = 1:nrow(volcano),
y = 1:ncol(volcano))
topography$z <- c(volcano)
# point measurements of something at a few locations
set.seed(42)
measurements <- data.frame(x = runif(30, 1, 80),
y = runif(30, 1, 60),
thing = rnorm(30))
ggplot(mapping = aes(x, y)) +
geom_contour(data = topography, aes(z = z, color = stat(level))) +
# Color scale for topography
scale_color_viridis_c(option = "D") +
# geoms below will use another color scale
new_scale_color() +
geom_point(data = measurements, size = 3, aes(color = thing)) +
# Color scale applied to geoms added after new_scale_color()
scale_color_viridis_c(option = "A")
```
If you want to create new scales for other `aes`, you can call `new_scale` with the name of the `aes`. For example, use
```{r, eval = FALSE}
new_scale("linetype")
```
to add multiple linetype scales.