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Man those charts are beautiful, and this coming from someone who knows R graphics and ggplot pretty well. Please may I ask a) what platform (OS/X / Windows / Li

Man those charts are beautiful, and this coming from someone who knows R graphics and ggplot pretty well. Please may I ask a) what platform (OS/X / Windows / Linux?) and b) what are the axis and title fonts?

minimaxir 11y ago
I have a separate post on how the ggplot2 charts are generally done: http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/ggplot-tutorial/ http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/ggplot-tutorial/ Platform is OSX, title font is Source Sans Pro, axis numeric fonts are Open Sans Condensed Bold (the same fonts used on the web page itself; synergy!)
- vegabook 11y ago
  You've managed to make even ggplot's already excellent default outputs look even better. Love the darker grey gridlines, the unified grey panel background which includes the headline, the alpha < 1 so the grid shows through, and especially the choice of axis fonts. Nice touch on the footnote too. This is what professional charts are supposed to look like.
- e12e 11y ago
  This is great, thank you. One note, though: I've yet to try it, but according to this stackoverflow-post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1898101/qplot-and-anti-aliasing-in-r http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1898101/qplot-and-anti-al... it should now be possible to get AA on both Windows and Linux via the Cairo-library. I'll be playing a bit with R notebooks for my stats intro class, if I find the time I'll try to see if a) I get AA out of the box, or b) I can get AA easily by setting some parameters. [ed: And if I do, I suppose pr to https://github.com/minimaxir/ggplot-tutorial https://github.com/minimaxir/ggplot-tutorial will be in order]
  - vegabook 11y ago
    Funny you should mention a subject which is close to my heart :-). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6023179/anti-aliasing-in-r-graphics-under-windows-as-per-mac http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6023179/anti-aliasing-in-...
  - minimaxir 11y ago
    Cario is good but Quartz was better in my experience.

minimaxir 11y ago

I have a separate post on how the ggplot2 charts are generally done: http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/ggplot-tutorial/ http://minimaxir.com/2015/02/ggplot-tutorial/ Platform is OSX, title font is Source Sans Pro, axis numeric fonts are Open Sans Condensed Bold (the same fonts used on the web page itself; synergy!)

vegabook 11y ago
You've managed to make even ggplot's already excellent default outputs look even better. Love the darker grey gridlines, the unified grey panel background which includes the headline, the alpha < 1 so the grid shows through, and especially the choice of axis fonts. Nice touch on the footnote too. This is what professional charts are supposed to look like.
e12e 11y ago
This is great, thank you. One note, though: I've yet to try it, but according to this stackoverflow-post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1898101/qplot-and-anti-aliasing-in-r http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1898101/qplot-and-anti-al... it should now be possible to get AA on both Windows and Linux via the Cairo-library. I'll be playing a bit with R notebooks for my stats intro class, if I find the time I'll try to see if a) I get AA out of the box, or b) I can get AA easily by setting some parameters. [ed: And if I do, I suppose pr to https://github.com/minimaxir/ggplot-tutorial https://github.com/minimaxir/ggplot-tutorial will be in order]
- vegabook 11y ago
  Funny you should mention a subject which is close to my heart :-). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6023179/anti-aliasing-in-r-graphics-under-windows-as-per-mac http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6023179/anti-aliasing-in-...
- minimaxir 11y ago
  Cario is good but Quartz was better in my experience.