Common features across plots

This page aims to list common features present across the different functions in the package (not all functions have them).

• Changing the font size: Use font.size parameter and provide a number.
• Changing the font type: Use font.type parameter and provide either sans, mono or serif.
• Add plot titles, subtitles and captions: Use plot.title, plot.subtitle and plot.caption parameters alongside a text to display.
• Changing between legend types in continuous variables: Use legend.type parameter and provide either normal, colorbar or colorsteps.
• Relocate the legend: Use legend.position parameter alongside top, bottom, left or right or none to remove it.
• Changing the font size: Use font.size parameter and provide a number.
• Modify default colors: Use colors.use for categorical variables and viridis_color_map for continuous (exceptions apply, see the corresponding subsection) and provide valid color representations or a valid viridis color map. _ Modify the direction of continuous color scales: Used alongsize viridis_color_map, provide either 1 or -1 to viridis_direction to specify whether the viridis scale goes from dark to light or vice versa.
• Plot borders around cells: Use plot_cell_borders parameter alongside border.size and border.color to customize how it looks.
• Toggle the grid on or off: Use plot.grid parameter alongside grid.type for the type of lines and grid.color for the grid color to customize it.
• Toggle axes on or off: Use plot.axes parameter to remove the axes.
• Subset a continuous axis: Use min.cutoff and max.cutoff.
• Rasterize figures: Use raster and raster.dpi parameters. It is important to play around with pt.size parameter in order to get the output figure right.