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spellbind

spellbind is the RLadies+ brand toolkit for R. It gives you colour palettes, a ggplot2 theme, colour/fill scales, and branded R Markdown templates so that everything your chapter produces looks like it belongs together.

Installation

Install from the RLadies r-universe:

install.packages("spellbind", repos = "https://rladies.r-universe.dev")

Or the development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("rladies/spellbind")

Colours

The brand palette has three primary colours — purple, blue, and rose — plus neutrals and tints for each.

library(spellbind)
rladies_cols("purple", "blue", "rose")
#>    purple      blue      rose 
#> "#881ef9" "#146af9" "#ff5b92"

ggplot2 theme and scales

theme_rladies() pairs with scale_colour_rladies() and scale_fill_rladies() to give plots a consistent branded look.

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(iris, aes(Sepal.Length, Sepal.Width, colour = Species)) +
  geom_point(size = 2.5) +
  scale_colour_rladies() +
  theme_rladies() +
  labs(title = "Iris sepal dimensions")

Eight palettes are available — "main", "full", "purple", "blue", "rose", "neutral", "diverging", and "light". See ?rladies_pal for details.

R Markdown templates

Three branded templates ship with the package, available from RStudio’s File > New File > R Markdown > From Template menu:

Getting started 

vignette("spellbind")

Or browse the pkgdown site.