govstyle

A package for applying a gov.uk style to plots created in the R package ggplot2. This package is in an early stage of development; the intended end point is that it should be fully compliant with the gov.uk style guide.

This package turns plots from this:

to this:

The best source of docmentation is the vignettes.

Installation

To install, the package devtools is required, and can be installed with install.packages('devtools').

govstyle can then be installed using devtools::install_github('ukgovdatascience/govstyle'). Some users may not be able to use the devtools::install_github() commands as a result of network security settings. If this is the case, govstyle can be installed by downloading the zip of the repository and installing the package locally using devtools::install_local(<path to zip file>).

Installing older versions

The package was revamped somewhat in January 2019. If this breaks your existing code, try installling the original version with the following code.

devtools::install_github("ukgovdatascience/govstyle", ref = "5d09353b14ccafda4e9c8676993fabf44fcfe5c1")

Functions

• theme_gov(): Theme to be applied to plots produced in ggplot2 to give a government statistics publication feel.
• gov_cols: A vector of the gov.uk extended palette.
• check_pal(): Display the extended gov.uk palette in a pie chart.

Examples

See Vignette for in depth usage examples.

theme_gov

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
#devtools::install_github("ukgovdatascience/govstyle")
library(govstyle)

p <- mtcars %>%
  ggplot +
  aes(
    x = wt,
    y = mpg,
    col = factor(cyl)
    ) +
  geom_point()

p

p +
  theme_gov()

check_pal

## Show gov.uk colours

check_pal()

## Show a subset of gov.uk colours

## Choose n colours:

check_pal(2)

check_pal(3)

check_pal(4)

## Pick a range of colours

check_pal(3:8)

check_pal(c(1,10))

## Pick colours manually

check_pal(
  x = gov_cols[c("green", "grass_green")]
  )