Customising (applying limits to fill scale for) corr_cross about lares

[laresbernardo]

Hi! This seems more of an issue trying to customize the ggplot object rather than using the library. Re the corr_cross() function, we apply theme_lares() by default to our plots so that all plot outputs have a consistent colour palette and theme. That said, once you have your object, you can customize the ggplot object to follow your style needs.

[NikitaEGroot]

Hi, thanks for your response!

I found a solution which I'll just share here in case anyone else wants to fiddle around with colours like I do - it ended up being really simple to just use the following (from https://rdrr.io/github/laresbernardo/lares/man/gg_fill_customs.html):

options("lares.colours.custom" = data.frame(
  values = c("positive", "negative"),
  fill = c("postivecolourthatIwanted", "negativecolourthatIwanted"),
  colour = c("black", "white")
))

With of course editing the the fill argument with whatever hex codes I desired. This had the added bonus of not producing any warnings like “Scale for ‘fill’ is already present. Adding another scale for ‘fill’, which will replace the existing scale.” You can do this for pretty much any colour in the theme depending on how that colour is retrieved - for corr_cross() I only needed positive and negative, but you can access the full list for true/false, different social media or the full palette etc with lares_pal(), all of which can be edited with variations of the code above.

Many thanks for building in these options for customisation!

[laresbernardo]

That’s exactly right! That’s the easiest way to customize the palette. Actually I had forgot about that option since it always uses the palette I set by default for me and I enabled that option for other users to personalize! Thanks for sharing.