Publication question

[Brian Weaver]

ggploters,

this is not a technical question involving ggplot2 but more of an experience question.  I am currently in the process of trying to publish two different articles and my other coauthors are very nervous about publishing with   plots created with ggplot2, mainly because the background is gray.  They are concerned that journals will reject the articles because the plots do not have the white background.  My guess is their reasoning for this concern is journals are of course concerned about saving money and adding additional "color" to the background of the plot will add to the expense of publication.  Have any of you submitted articles to journals that had plots from ggplot2.  Also, if you have tried, were any of them rejected or criticized for the plots.

I appreciate your comments and look forward to hearing about your experiences.

Brian

[Brandon Hurr]

Brian,

I've not had to put anything up for publication since I started using
R and ggplot for making graphs. My wife works in publishing and works
on a journal (IJSEM). She says that for her journal they would
actually edit out the gray so that the graphs conformed with previous
editions and their white backgrounds. She did say that you would be
best asking the journal you're interested in publishing in, what they
would do since it is probably a policy decided by each journal
individually.

That being said... you know that you can remove the gray backgrounds right?

#from previous email

#dataset
test = data.frame(x = c(4, 8, 16, 32, 64), y =  c(1:5))

p<-ggplot(test, aes(x=factor(x), y=y, group=1))+
geom_line()+
geom_point()

p

#gets rid of most of the gray with the preset theme theme_bw()
p+theme_bw()

#or strip it bare.
p + opts(panel.grid.minor = theme_line(colour = NA),
panel.grid.major = theme_line(colour = NA),
panel.border = theme_rect(fill = NA, colour = NA),
panel.background = theme_rect(fill = NA, colour = NA),
plot.background = theme_rect(fill = NA, colour = NA))

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[Alan Kelly]

Hi Brian - in my experience (both as author and reviewer), the quality of the
plots will not dictate whether an article is publishable or not. However, it
is likely that you would be asked - if the article is accepted - to provide a
version of the graphics without the grey background. Chapter 8 of Hadley's
book "Polishing your plots for publication" deals with this very issue. The
default theme shows the background as grey however this can be changed by
setting the theme to black & white - look-up the "theme_update" option and see
example of using theme_set(theme_bw()).
Best wishes,
Alan

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Dr. Alan Kelly
Trinity College Dublin

Quoting Brian Weaver <the...@iastate.edu>: