Re: default plots

[Bob Carpenter]

[moved to stan-dev]

We'll only be able to keep the name until someone
with more popular R packages decides to use it. Or
will we namespace qualify it like rstan::theme_default
or something?

- Bob


> On Jun 23, 2016, at 2:25 PM, Andrew Gelman <gel...@stat.columbia.edu> wrote:
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> Yes, theme_default would be awesome. Let's grab it!
>
>> On Jun 23, 2016, at 1:08 AM, Jonah Sol Gabry <jga...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Ok theme_arm is fine by me. I also just noticed that there doesn't seem to be any existing theme with the name theme_default, which I kind of like.
>>
>> As for the particulars of the theme, what about if I send some examples using my current theme and then you can say what you don't like and/or do like, and then I'll make some tweaks and we can iterate? Eventually we'll arrive at a good theme.
>>
>> Jonah
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>> On Wednesday, June 22, 2016, Andrew Gelman <gel...@stat.columbia.edu> wrote:
>> I'd prefer not to call it theme_gelman. Perhaps theme_arm? (theme_stan doesn't really make sense here).
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>> > On Jun 22, 2016, at 3:43 PM, Jonah Sol Gabry <jga...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hi Andrew and Bob,
>> >
>> > I've been thinking about defaults for plotting again and working on it a bit, and I think it's time to create a custom ggplot theme.
>> >
>> > Do you have (or can you make) a list of your Dos and Donts, so to speak, for (default) plots? In the package I'm writing to handle all plotting for Stan-related R packages I'm going to be changing the ggplot defaults (setting a "theme" in ggplot language), so I can put your recommendations together in a theme object, use it as the default, and also expose it to users for use with their own plus.
>> >
>> > The convention for theme names is to have the prefix 'theme_', so maybe we call it 'theme_gelman'?
>> >
>> > Jonah
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