Package 'fillpattern'

Title: Patterned Fills for 'ggplot2' and 'grid' Graphics
Description: Adds distinctive yet unobtrusive geometric patterns where solid color fills are normally used. Patterned figures look just as professional when viewed by colorblind readers or when printed in black and white. The dozen included patterns can be customized in terms of scale, rotation, color, fill, line type, and line width. Compatible with the 'ggplot2' package as well as 'grid' graphics.
Authors: Daniel P. Smith [aut, cre] , Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research [cph, fnd]
Maintainer: Daniel P. Smith <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 1.0.2
Built: 2025-01-20 04:10:26 UTC
Source: https://github.com/cmmr/fillpattern

Help Index


Patterned Fills for Grobs

Description

Patterned Fills for Grobs

Usage

fill_pattern(
  patterns = "brick",
  fg = "black",
  bg = "transparent",
  angle = 0,
  width = 5,
  height = NA,
  lwd = 1,
  lty = "solid",
  fun = NULL,
  min_size = 2
)

fillPatternGrob(
  pattern = "brick",
  fg = "black",
  bg = "transparent",
  angle = 0,
  width = 5,
  height = NA,
  lwd = 1,
  lty = "solid",
  fun = NULL,
  min_size = 2
)

Arguments

patterns, pattern

The pattern specification. Options are "brick", "chevron", "fish", "grid", "herringbone", "hexagon", "octagon", "rain", "saw", "shingle", "rshingle", "stripe", and "wave", optionally abbreviated and/or suffixed with modifiers. See "Pattern Names" section below. Default: "brick"

fg

Foreground color, for the pattern's lines. Default: "black"

bg

Background color (or grob). Default: "transparent"

angle

How much the rotate the pattern, given in degrees clockwise. Default: 0

width

The width of the pattern tile. Assumed to be millimeters unless set otherwise with unit(). Default: 5

height

The height of the pattern tile, or NA to match width. Assumed to be millimeters unless set otherwise with unit(). Default: NA

lwd

Line width. A positive number. See graphics::par() for additional details. Default: 1

lty

Line type. One of "solid", "dashed", "dotted", "dotdash", "longdash", or "twodash". See graphics::par() for additional details. Default: "solid"

fun

A function for modifying graphical parameters immediately before rendering. Should accept two parameters: env, an environment that the function should modify, and row, the row of transformed data that ggbuild has constructed for this grob (including aes mappings). The function should return a gTree or an error to force returning from the parent function immediately, or NULL to continue processing with the updated env. Default: NULL

min_size

Minimum size of the pattern to draw. Applies to both width and height. Useful for avoiding CPU and memory overhead on tiny graphical elements. Assumed to be millimeters unless set otherwise with unit(). Default: 2

Details

fillPatternGrob() expects a single value for each parameter. fill_pattern() can accept a vector of values for each parameter which are subset or recycled as needed to obtain the same number as length(patterns).

Value

fill_pattern() returns a list of grid::pattern() objects; fillPatternGrob() returns a grid::gTree() object.

Pattern Names

Base name:

  • Pattern names must always begin with one of "brick", "chevron", "fish", "grid", "herringbone", "hexagon", "octagon", "rain", "saw", "shingle", "rshingle", "stripe", or "wave".

  • These names support partial matching, e.g. "her", "herring", and "herringbone" are all valid. However, tiling designs may be added in the future, so it is recommended to use the full names in finished code.

Angle modifier:

  • A number immediately following the tiling design, such as "stripe45", "fish180", or "saw20".

  • Is added to the angle argument; fill_pattern("brick45", angle=45) is equivalent to fill_pattern("brick90").

Width and height modifier:

  • An underscore followed by a single size to be used for both width and height.

  • Or, an underscore followed by the new width and height separated by a colon.

  • Can be absolute sizes ("grid_4" or "hex_5mm:0.1npc") or relative to the width and height arguments ("saw_sm" or "brick_*2:/2"). The shorthand values "xs", "sm", "md", "lg", and "xl" are equivalent to "/4", "/2", "1", "*2", and "*4", respectively.

Line width and style:

  • An underscore, followed by a number, followed by one of "solid", "dashed", "dotted", "dotdash", "longdash", or "twodash". For example, "shingle_0.5dashed" or "wave_2solid".

  • The number component is optional, so "oct_longdash" is also valid, and will use lwd for the line width.

  • To specify just the line width, suffix the number with "lwd": "grid_2lwd" will use lty for the line style.

Combinations:

  • Modifiers can be combined in any order. For example, "hex_lg:xl_2dotted" or "grid45_dashed_1.4lwd_:6mm_sm:".

See Also

scale_fill_pattern() for ggplot2 integration.

Examples

library(grid)
    library(fillpattern)
    
    grid.newpage()
    grid.rect(gp = gpar(fill = fill_pattern("brick", bg = "gray", angle = 90)))
    
    grid.newpage()
    gp <- Map(gpar, fill = fill_pattern(
      patterns = c("grid_3lwd", "stripe_longdash", "herringbone45", "hexagon_lg"),
      fg       = c("black",     "white",           "black",         "blue"),
      bg       = c("white",     "black",           "cyan",          "beige") ))
    grid.circle( gp = gp[[1]], x = 1/4, y = 3/4, r = 1/5)
    grid.polygon(gp = gp[[2]], x = c(9,12,15)/16, y = c(15,9,15)/16)
    grid.rect(   gp = gp[[3]], x = 1/4, y = 1/4, width = 2/5, height = 2/5)
    grid.rect(   gp = gp[[4]], x = 3/4, y = 1/4, width = 2/5, height = 2/5)

Patterned Fills for ggplot.

Description

Patterned Fills for ggplot.

Usage

scale_fill_pattern(
  patterns = seq_len,
  fg = NA,
  bg = ifelse(is.na(fg), "transparent", NA),
  fade = ifelse(is.na(fg), 1, 0.6),
  alpha = 1,
  angle = 0,
  width = unit(1/10, "npc"),
  height = NA,
  lwd = 1,
  lty = "solid",
  fun = NULL,
  min_size = 2
)

Arguments

patterns

A vector of pattern names that will be subset or recycled as needed to match the levels of the aes() fill variable. If integers are provided, they are mapped to predefined patterns. See "Details" and "Pattern Names" sections below. Default: seq_len

fg

Foreground color for the pattern's lines, or NA to use the color scale for the aes() color variable. Default: NA

bg

Background color (or grob), or NA to use the color scale for the aes() color variable. Default: ifelse(is.na(fg), "transparent", NA)

fade, alpha

Modify the color from the aes() color scale. Fade will make it more white, and alpha will make it more transparent. Both values must be between 0 and 1, inclusive, where 1 means unchanged. Default: ⁠fade = ifelse(is.na(fg), 1, 0.6), alpha = 1⁠

angle

How much the rotate the pattern, given in degrees clockwise. Default: 0

width

The width of the pattern tile. Assumed to be millimeters unless set otherwise with unit(). Default: unit(1/10, 'npc')

height

The height of the pattern tile, or NA to match width. Assumed to be millimeters unless set otherwise with unit(). Default: NA

lwd

Line width. A positive number. See graphics::par() for additional details. Default: 1

lty

Line type. One of "solid", "dashed", "dotted", "dotdash", "longdash", or "twodash". See graphics::par() for additional details. Default: "solid"

fun

A function for modifying graphical parameters immediately before rendering. Should accept two parameters: env, an environment that the function should modify, and row, the row of transformed data that ggbuild has constructed for this grob (including aes mappings). The function should return a gTree or an error to force returning from the parent function immediately, or NULL to continue processing with the updated env. Default: NULL

min_size

Minimum size of the pattern to draw. Applies to both width and height. Useful for avoiding CPU and memory overhead on tiny graphical elements. Assumed to be millimeters unless set otherwise with unit(). Default: 2

Details

All of the parameters can accept a vector of values or a function that takes n as an argument and returns the value(s) to use. The values are subset or recycled as needed to obtain the same number as length(levels(fill)), where fill is the variable defined by aes(fill = ).

Value

A ggplot2::discrete_scale() object.

Pattern Names

Base name:

  • Pattern names must always begin with one of "brick", "chevron", "fish", "grid", "herringbone", "hexagon", "octagon", "rain", "saw", "shingle", "rshingle", "stripe", or "wave".

  • These names support partial matching, e.g. "her", "herring", and "herringbone" are all valid. However, tiling designs may be added in the future, so it is recommended to use the full names in finished code.

Angle modifier:

  • A number immediately following the tiling design, such as "stripe45", "fish180", or "saw20".

  • Is added to the angle argument; fill_pattern("brick45", angle=45) is equivalent to fill_pattern("brick90").

Width and height modifier:

  • An underscore followed by a single size to be used for both width and height.

  • Or, an underscore followed by the new width and height separated by a colon.

  • Can be absolute sizes ("grid_4" or "hex_5mm:0.1npc") or relative to the width and height arguments ("saw_sm" or "brick_*2:/2"). The shorthand values "xs", "sm", "md", "lg", and "xl" are equivalent to "/4", "/2", "1", "*2", and "*4", respectively.

Line width and style:

  • An underscore, followed by a number, followed by one of "solid", "dashed", "dotted", "dotdash", "longdash", or "twodash". For example, "shingle_0.5dashed" or "wave_2solid".

  • The number component is optional, so "oct_longdash" is also valid, and will use lwd for the line width.

  • To specify just the line width, suffix the number with "lwd": "grid_2lwd" will use lty for the line style.

Combinations:

  • Modifiers can be combined in any order. For example, "hex_lg:xl_2dotted" or "grid45_dashed_1.4lwd_:6mm_sm:".

See Also

fill_pattern() for base grid graphics integration.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
    library(fillpattern)
    
    ggplot(mpg, aes(x = class, y = hwy, color = class, fill = class)) +
      geom_boxplot() +
      scale_fill_pattern()

    ggplot(mpg, aes(x = drv, y = hwy, color = drv, fill = drv)) +
      geom_violin() +
      scale_colour_brewer(palette = "Set1") + 
      scale_fill_pattern(c("brick", "stripe45", "grid45_lg"), fg = "black")

    ggplot(mpg, aes(x = drv, color = drv, fill = drv)) +
      geom_bar() +
      scale_fill_pattern(
        patterns = c("hex_sm", "brick90_xl", "fish"),
        lty      = c("solid", "twodash", "dotted"),
        lwd      = c(2, 3, 1) ) +
      theme(legend.key.size = unit(2, 'cm'))