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charite

A minimal R package with a Charité-styled ggplot2 theme, visual identity colour palettes, and publication-ready figure export for manuscripts and slides.

Installation

You can install the development version of charite from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("johannesjuliusm/charite")

To install the package on a machine with proxies, e.g., the standard Windows PC in the Charité network, find more detailed installation instructions in the installation vignette.

Examples

Visualize your data with theme_charite() to match the corporate style.

Preview the available colour palettes.

Workflow 

# create your ggplot2 figure
p <- ggplot(data, aes(x = x, y = y)) +
        geom_point(size = 3, color = charite_colors$HIMBEER) # use any of the Charité colors
        
# format the plot style
p <- p + theme_charite()

# alternatively, customize the plot style further
# for example by specifying a font
p <- p + theme_charite(font = "Charité Text Office")

# easily save your plot in a format optimized for slides and publications
nice_save("myfigure.png", p, layout = "slides")

Available Functions

  • theme_charite() – A custom ggplot2 theme
  • charite_colors – Named list of hex codes of the Charité visual identity colours
  • charite_palettes – Named list of colour palettes derived from the Charité visual identity colour scheme
  • preview_charite_palettes() – Shows the available colour palettes as colour swatches
  • nice_save() – ggsave wrapper with defaults ideal for high-res figures for publication
  • scale_color_charite() – ggplot2 colour scale using palettes from charite_palettes
  • scale_fill_charite() – ggplot2 fill scale using palettes from charite_palettes
  • example_plot() – Generates a demo plot
  • make_charite_palette() – Internal function to interpolate or reverse colour palettes
  • virchow() – Surprise console ASCII art. Use for fun
  • curves – Included dataset with time series curves for demo plot

Author

Developed by Johannes Julius Mohn
Max Planck School of Cognition & Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

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How to Acknowledge

If you use this package in your work or publication, please acknowledge the author.
Example: “The figures were generated using a custom theme from the charite R package by Johannes Julius Mohn (https://github.com/johannesjuliusm/charite).”