ggplot2 package

ggplot2 is the most popular alternative to base R graphics. It is based on the Grammar of Graphics and its main advantage is its flexibility, as you can create and customize the graphics adding more layers to it. This library allows creating ready-to-publish charts easily

CUSTOMIZATION

The ggplot2 package allows customizing the charts with themes. It is possible to customize everything of a plot, such as the colors, line types, fonts, alignments, among others, with the components of the theme function. In addition, there are several functions you can use to customize the graphs adding titles, subtitles, lines, arrows or texts.

Title, subtitle, caption and tag in ggplot2

Title, subtitle, caption and tag

Text annotations in ggplot2

Text annotations

Background color in ggplot2

Background color

Grid customization in ggplot2

Grid customization

ggplot2 axis titles, labels, ticks, limits and scales

Axis titles, labels, ticks, limits and scales
Margins in ggplot2

Margins

Themes in ggplot2

Themes

Legends in ggplot2

Legends

Reference lines, segments, curves and arrows in ggplot2

Reference lines, segments, curves and arrows

Faceting in ggplot2 with facet_wrap and facet_grid

Faceting with facet_wrap and facet_grid
Coordinate systems in ggplot2

Coordinate systems

Combining plots in ggplot2

Combining plots

ALL GGPLOT2 CHARTS

The following list contains all the ggplot2 tutorials of this site. Each tutorial contains the reproducible code of different customizations of the same or equivalent chart. If you want to filter them choose a category and select ggplot2.

Time series plot in ggplot2

Time series plot

Dumbbell plot in ggplot2

Dumbbell plot

Bubble chart in ggplot2

Bubble chart

Maps in ggplot2 with geom_sf

Maps with geom_sf
Image processing in R with magick

Image processing in R with magick
Bar plot in ggplot2 with geom_bar and geom_col

Bar plot with geom_bar and geom_col
Word cloud in ggplot2 with ggwordcloud

Word cloud with ggwordcloud
Heat map in ggplot2

Heat map

Parliament diagram in ggplot2 with ggparliament

Parliament diagram with ggparliament
Adding dogs to ggplot2 with ggdogs

Adding dogs to ggplot2 with ggdogs
Diverging bar chart in ggplot2

Diverging bar chart

Sankey diagrams in ggplot2 with ggsankey

Sankey diagrams with ggsankey
Cartograms in ggplot2

Cartograms

Proportional symbol maps in ggplot2

Proportional symbol maps

Choropleth maps in ggplot2

Choropleth maps

Ridgeline plot in ggplot2 with ggridges

Ridgeline plot with ggridges
Beeswarm in ggplot2 with ggbeeswarm

Beeswarm with ggbeeswarm
Streamgraph in ggplot2

Streamgraph

Slopegraph in ggplot2

Slopegraph

Treemaps in ggplot2 with treemapify

Treemaps with treemapify
Alluvial plot in ggplot2 with ggalluvial

Alluvial plot with ggalluvial
Waterfall charts in ggplot2 with waterfalls package

Waterfall charts with waterfalls package
Area chart in ggplot2 with geom_area

Area chart with geom_area
Line graph with multiple lines in ggplot2

Line graph with multiple lines

Lollipop chart in ggplot2

Lollipop chart

Pairs plot with ggpairs

Pairs plot with ggpairs
2D density contour plots in ggplot2

2D density contour plots

Hexbin chart in ggplot2

Hexbin chart

Parallel coordinates in ggplot2 with ggparcoord

Parallel coordinates with ggparcoord
Drawing functions in ggplot2 with geom_function

Drawing functions with geom_function
Venn diagram in ggplot2

Venn diagram

Connected scatter plot in ggplot2

Connected scatter plot

Scatter plot with ellipses in ggplot2

Scatter plot with ellipses

Density plot by group in ggplot2

Density plot by group

Voronoi diagram in ggplot2 with ggvoronoi

Voronoi diagram with ggvoronoi
Waffle chart (square pie) in ggplot2

Waffle chart (square pie)

Bump chart in ggplot2 with ggbump

Bump chart with ggbump
Radar chart in ggplot2 with ggradar

Radar chart with ggradar
Density plot in ggplot2 with geom_density

Density plot with geom_density
Line graph in ggplot2

Line graph

Violin plot by group in ggplot2

Violin plot by group

Donut chart in ggplot2

Donut chart

Pie chart in ggplot2

Pie chart

Pie chart with labels outside in ggplot2

Pie chart with labels outside

Pie chart with percentages in ggplot2

Pie chart with percentages

Stacked bar chart in ggplot2

Stacked bar chart

Violin plot with data points in ggplot2

Violin plot with data points

Violin plot with mean in ggplot2

Violin plot with mean

Scatter plot with marginal histograms in ggplot2

Scatter plot with marginal histograms

Anatogram images in ggplot2 with gganatogram

Anatogram images with gganatogram
Scatter plot by group in ggplot2

Scatter plot by group

Scatter plot in ggplot2

Scatter plot

Adding Bernie Sanders to ggplot2

Adding Bernie Sanders to ggplot2
Histogram in ggplot2 with Sturges method

Histogram with Sturges method
LEGO mosaics in R with brickr

LEGO mosaics in R with brickr
Plotting brain atlases in ggplot2 with ggseg

Plotting brain atlases with ggseg
Adding cats to ggplot2 with ggcats

Adding cats to ggplot2 with ggcats
Adding emojis to ggplot2 with emoGG

Adding emojis to ggplot2 with emoGG
Game Boy screen simulator in ggplot2 with ggboy

Game Boy screen simulator with ggboy
geom_lime and geom_pint

geom_lime and geom_pint
Histogram bins and binwidth in ggplot2

Histogram bins and binwidth

Histogram by group in ggplot2

Histogram by group

Histogram with density in ggplot2

Histogram with density

Box plot with jittered data points in ggplot2

Box plot with jittered data points

Yearly calendar heat map in R

Yearly calendar heat map in R
Box plot in ggplot2

Box plot

Monthly calendar heat map in R

Monthly calendar heat map in R
Yearly calendar in ggplot2

Yearly calendar

Box plot by group in ggplot2

Box plot by group

Game boy in ggplot2

Game boy

Keyboards in ggplot2 with ggkeyboard

Keyboards with ggkeyboard
Lunar calendar with ggplot2

Lunar calendar with ggplot2
Monthly calendar in ggplot2

Monthly calendar

Soccer event data in ggplot2 with ggsoccer

Soccer event data with ggsoccer