Markdown Theme Element for ggplot2 — element

A theme element that renders text labels as markdown. Use in place of ggplot2::element_text() for plot titles, subtitles, captions, axis labels, etc.

Usage

element_md(
  family = NULL,
  code_font_family = NULL,
  face = NULL,
  colour = NULL,
  size = NULL,
  hjust = NULL,
  vjust = NULL,
  angle = NULL,
  lineheight = NULL,
  color = NULL,
  margin = NULL,
  debug = FALSE,
  inherit.blank = FALSE
)

Arguments

family: Font family.
code_font_family: Font family for inline code. Defaults to "mono".
face: Font face ("plain", "bold", "italic", "bold.italic").
colour, color: Text color.
size: Font size in points.
hjust: Horizontal justification (0-1).
vjust: Vertical justification (0-1).
angle: Text rotation angle in degrees.
lineheight: Line height multiplier.
margin: Margins around the text (use ggplot2::margin()).
debug: Show debug rectangles.
inherit.blank: Should this element inherit blank elements.

Value

An element of class c("element_md", "element_text", "element").

Examples

library(ggplot2)

library(gdtools)
font_set_liberation()
#> Font set
#>   sans:    Liberation Sans [liberation]
#>   serif:   Liberation Serif [liberation]
#>   mono:    Liberation Mono [liberation]
#>   symbol:  Liberation Sans [liberation]
#>   4 HTML dependencies
flextable::set_flextable_defaults(
  font.size = 12,
  font.family = "Liberation Sans"
)

p1 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(title = "**Bold title** with *italic*") +
  theme(plot.title = element_md())

girafe(
  ggobj = p1,
  dependencies = list(
    liberationsansHtmlDependency()
  )
)


p2 <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, wt)) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(
    title = "**MPG** vs *Weight*",
    caption = "Source: `mtcars` dataset"
  ) +
  theme(
    plot.title = element_md(size = 16),
    plot.caption = element_md(size = 9)
  )
girafe(
  ggobj = p2,
  check_fonts_dependencies = TRUE
)