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Cool book. Just a suggestion here:

ggplot(bar_df,
aes(x = reorder(country, lifeExp), y = lifeExp, fill = country == "Mauritius")) +
geom_col() +
scale_fill_manual(values = c("#dddddd", "#1380A1"), guide = F) +
geom_hline(yintercept = 0, size = 1, colour="#333333") +
bbc_style() +
coord_flip() +
labs(title="Reunion is highest",
subtitle = "Highest African life expectancy, 2007") +
theme(panel.grid.major.x = element_line(color="#cbcbcb"),
panel.grid.major.y = element_blank())

Hi!

I've been using this package today to try it out and I am very happy with it.

I have a logo image that I want to add to my plot. I used the logo_image_path option in the finalise_plot function.
The logo is added to the plot, but it is not complete, it is cutted on the right side.

Is there a way to have it complete without having to change the dimensions of the image?

Thank you,
Carlotta.

Downloading GitHub repo bbc/bbplot@master
Error in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) : incomplete block on file

Windows machines do not support Helvetica font type, so I had to make modifications to the bbc_style() in a separate ggplot2() function. It would be cool to have maybe a font argument that defaults to Helvetica, but would allow others to change the font name. Once the font changes, there may be some sizing differences, so it would also be cool to create an offset size, to do a plus or minus the current font sizes used in your function: bbc_style <- function(font = "Helvetica", offset = 0), which would allow me to use it like this: bbc_style("Arial", -2).

I'm trying to install bbplot and received the following error messages:

Error: Failed to install 'bbplot' from GitHub:
(converted from warning) unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.5:
cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.5/PACKAGES'

The code that I used was:
install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('bbc/bbplot')

I'm using R 3.5.3 (2019-03-11) on a Windows 10 Enterprise machine. I get a code 404 error messages when I try to go to the URLs in the above error message.

Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.

The dataframe used to plot the example, line_df is not defined.

Perhaps create an example df and save to the package, or provide code in .md to create line_df.

I was reading your https://bbc.github.io/rcookbook/ and this is pretty great, but there's an easy step that you could take that would add simplicity and consistency to the plot making process: Take a look at RColorBrewer... it let's you very simply to call out colors as per a variety of themes... perhaps something like this could be done w/ BBC colours? This way one would never have to read a theme sheet, it would be built right in. Helpful?

Finalise_plot function is unable to open my png image. I haven't changed any of the code and the image I have is called placeholder.png. Unsure as to why it doesn't work. Any suggestions?

Windows does not have it's own Helvetica font, which results in warnings when using bbc_style() on a typical windows computer.

Running windowsFonts(Helvetica = "TT Arial") at the start of the script will use the windows default of treating Helvetica as Arial and avoid the warnings.

if I use the function bbc_style(), Chinese characters cannot show properly in the final graphic even when I add theme(text = element_text(family = "Kai")).
Delete bbc_style() can work properly.

So I think there may be some problem with bbc_style() when using Chinese characters.

The bbc_style function seems very similar to any other ggplot theme function, like the theme_grey, theme_classic, theme_light, etc., built in to the ggplot2 package, or many others like those in the ggthemes package.

Except the name.

I think it'd be great to change the name of the function to theme_bbc if you'd like greater visibility consider submitting it to ggthemes. With theme_economist, theme_fivethirtyeight, and theme_wsj, theme_bbc would feel right at home :)

Hi, can you help me? I can't install the bbplot and it shows an error like this:
Error: Failed to install 'bbplot' from GitHub:
(converted from warning) unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.6:
cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/PACKAGES'

Hi,

I've started using the bbplot package today which is generally working really well. However, when finalising the plot, the exports seem to include a black bar at the bottom of the image which masks the source details. I've fiddled with the code and it seems to be happening when the subtitle or source are longer than a certain number of characters (although still less wide than the width of the available space). I can't get any plots to finalise with both a subtitle and source at present.

Code:

svannualcount <- ggplot(svkc_count, aes(x = as.character(Recorded_Year), y = n)) +
  geom_col(fill="#082a52") +
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0, size = 1, colour="#333333") +
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 0)) +
  bbc_style() +
  labs(title="This is a test title",
       subtitle = "Can you read my test title?")

finalise_plot(plot_name = svannualcount,
              source = "Source: This is a test source.",
              save_filepath = "/tmp/svkcannualplot.png",
              width_pixels = 640,
              height_pixels = 450,
              logo_image_path = "/tmp/vrulogo.png"
             )

Graphic:

Error in (function (el, elname) :
"plot.subtitle" is not a valid theme element name.

I was trying to create a stacked barplot however i encountered this error.

When finalizing a plot, it would be nice to be able to pull a logo from a URL. This would make it easier to share code examples without first requiring users to download the logos.

See the attached screenshot.
<img width="1415" alt="Screen Shot 2020-05-17 at 1 30 23 PM" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/65510741/82159476-28070180-9843-11ea-8433-d70ccf3045c5.png"