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Basic Use

Source: vignettes/basicuse.Rmd
basicuse.Rmd

Installation

You will need to install devtools if you have not already done so:

install.packages("devtools")

Then use devtools to install michigancolors.

devtools::install_github("agrogan1/michigancolors")

Usage

Allowable Colors

Colors are drawn from https://brand.umich.edu/design-resources/colors/.

Allowable colors are: “blue”, “maize”, “tappan red”, “ross school orange”, “wave field green”, “taubman teal”, “arboretum blue”, “ann arbor amethyst”, “matthaei violet”, “umma tan”, “burton tower beige”, “angell hall ash”, and “law quad stone”

Help 

help(michigancolors)

Examples

Base R

Entire Palette Of Colors 

hist(iris$Petal.Length, col = michigancolors())

hist(iris$Petal.Length, 
     col = michigancolors(),
     main = "Petal Length of Iris Flowers",
     xlab = "Petal Length")

Specific Color 

hist(iris$Petal.Length, col = michigancolors("matthaei violet"))

plot(iris$Petal.Length, 
     iris$Sepal.Length, 
     pch = 19,
     col = michigancolors("tappan red"))

ggplot2

Entire Palette Of Colors 

ggplot(iris, 
       aes(x = Petal.Length, 
           fill = Species)) + 
  geom_density(alpha = .5) + 
  labs(title = "Density Plot of Species in Iris Data Set") + 
  theme_minimal() + 
  scale_fill_manual(values = michigancolors())

ggplot(iris, 
       aes(x = Petal.Length, 
           y = Sepal.Length, 
           color = Species)) + 
  geom_point() + 
  geom_smooth() + 
  labs(title = "Scatterplot of Iris Data Set") + 
  theme_minimal() + 
  scale_color_manual(values = michigancolors())
#> `geom_smooth()` using method = 'loess' and formula = 'y ~ x'

Specific Colors 

library(ggdist) # distribution plots

ggplot(iris,
       aes(x = Species,
           y = Petal.Length,
           fill = Species)) +
  geom_dots(dotsize = 3, # dot size
            color = "black") + # outline color
  labs(title = "Petal Length by Iris Species") + 
  theme_minimal() + 
  scale_fill_manual(values = c(michigancolors("arboretum blue"),
                               michigancolors("ann arbor amethyst"),
                               michigancolors("matthaei violet")))