ggrm: Remove Stuff from ggplot

An R package with wrappers around ggplot2 functions to allow removing chunks of ggplot objects with one-liners. For example, the function rm_axis() removes the ticks, the text, the title and the bar that compose an axis --- no need to write element_blank() many times within the theme() function.

Install

# install.packages("devtools") # if not installed already
devtools::install_github("rscherrer/ggrm")

Prerequisites

• R (>= 4.2.1)

(ggplot2 is automatically installed as a dependency of ggrm.)

Functions

• rm_axis() to remove either axis completely
• rm_strips() to remove strips and labels from facets (when using facet_wrap() or facet_grid())

Example usage

library(ggplot2)
library(ggrm)

data <- data.frame(x = 1:3, z = 3:1)

ggplot(data, aes(x = x, y = x)) +
  geom_line() +
  rm_axis("x") # will remove the x-axis completely

Output

One of the main use cases I had was to turn this sort of plot:

into this sort of plot:

Thus saving some space by removing redundant axes and facet strips!