{mdthemes} adds support for rendering text as markdown to your favorite {ggplot2} themes thanks to the awesome {ggtext} package.
The package is currently only available from GitHub.
if (!"remotes" %in% installed.packages()) {
install.packages("remotes")
}
remotes::install_github("thomas-neitmann/mdthemes", upgrade = "never")Currently, {mdthemes} contains all themes from {ggplot2}, {ggthemes}, {hrbrthemes}, {tvthemes} and {cowplot} with support for rendering text as markdown. All themes start with md_ followed by the name of the original theme, e.g. md_theme_bw().
library(ggplot2)
library(mdthemes)
data(mtcars)
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(hp, mpg)) +
geom_point() +
labs(
title = "This is a **bold** title",
subtitle = "And an *italics* subtitle",
x = "**_hp_**",
caption = "<span style = 'color:blue'>A blue caption</span>"
)
p + theme_minimal()
p + md_theme_minimal()
