You already know the ggplot2 basics - now it is time to take full control of your plots. This section covers axis customization, color palettes, theme design, export, advanced plot types, facetting, and useful extension packages.

Prerequisites: Before diving in, you should be comfortable with the content from First ggplot and Factors.

Required R packages

The chapters in this section use the R packages below. Run this once to install any that are missing:

pkgs <- c(
  "tidyverse", "gapminder", "scales", "glue", "ggtext",
  "showtext", "sysfonts", "ragg", "camcorder", "RColorBrewer",
  "MetBrewer", "viridis", "ggh4x", "ggrepel", "ggforce",
  "patchwork", "cowplot"
)
install.packages(setdiff(pkgs, rownames(installed.packages())))

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