Package: cowplot 1.2.0.9000

Claus O. Wilke

cowplot: Streamlined Plot Theme and Plot Annotations for 'ggplot2'

Provides various features that help with creating publication-quality figures with 'ggplot2', such as a set of themes, functions to align plots and arrange them into complex compound figures, and functions that make it easy to annotate plots and or mix plots with images. The package was originally written for internal use in the Wilke lab, hence the name (Claus O. Wilke's plot package). It has also been used extensively in the book Fundamentals of Data Visualization.

Authors:Claus O. Wilke [aut, cre]

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cowplot/json (API)

# Install 'cowplot' in R:

install.packages('cowplot', repos = c('https://wilkelab.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/wilkelab/cowplot/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://wilkelab.org

On CRAN:

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Last updated from:b18d820d3a. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

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macos-release-arm64	OK	193
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windows-devel	OK	139
windows-release	OK	131
windows-oldrel	OK	131
wasm-release	OK	118

Exports:add_sub agg_null_device align_margin align_plots as_grob as_gtable axis_canvas background_grid cairo_null_device circle_key_glyph draw_figure_label draw_grob draw_image draw_label draw_line draw_plot draw_plot_label draw_text GeomDrawGrob get_legend get_panel get_panel_component get_plot_component get_subtitle get_title get_x_axis get_y_axis ggdraw ggsave2 gtable_remove_grobs gtable_squash_cols gtable_squash_rows insert_xaxis_grob insert_yaxis_grob panel_border pdf_null_device plot_component_names plot_components plot_grid plot_to_gtable png_null_device rectangle_key_glyph save_plot set_null_device stamp stamp_bad stamp_good stamp_ugly stamp_wrong theme_cowplot theme_half_open theme_map theme_minimal_grid theme_minimal_hgrid theme_minimal_vgrid theme_nothing

Dependencies:cli cpp11 farver ggplot2 glue gtable isoband labeling lifecycle R6 RColorBrewer rlang S7 scales vctrs viridisLite withr

Introduction to cowplot

Themes | Arranging plots into a grid | Generic plot annotations

Rendered fromintroduction.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdown

Last update: 2025-07-06
Started: 2014-10-05

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Add annotation underneath a plot	add_sub
Align multiple plots vertically and/or horizontally	align_plots
Convert a base plot or a ggplot2 plot into a grob	as_grob
Convert plot or other graphics object into a gtable	as_gtable plot_to_gtable
Generates a canvas onto which one can draw axis-like objects.	axis_canvas
Add/modify/remove the background grid in a ggplot2 plot	background_grid
Add a label to a figure	draw_figure_label
Draw a grob.	draw_grob GeomDrawGrob
Draw an image	draw_image
Draw a text label or mathematical expression.	draw_label
Draw a line from connected points	draw_line
Draw a (sub)plot.	draw_plot
Add a label to a plot	draw_plot_label
Draw multiple text-strings in one go.	draw_text
Retrieve the legend of a plot	get_legend
Retrieve the panel or part of a panel of a plot	get_panel get_panel_component
Get plot components	get_plot_component plot_components plot_component_names
Get plot titles	get_subtitle get_title
Get plot axes	get_x_axis get_y_axis
Set up a drawing layer on top of a ggplot	ggdraw
Cowplot reimplementation of 'ggsave()'.	ggsave2
Remove named elements from gtable	gtable_remove_grobs
Set the width of given columns to 0.	gtable_squash_cols
Set the height of given rows to 0.	gtable_squash_rows
Insert an axis-like grob on either side of a plot panel in a ggplot2 plot.	insert_xaxis_grob insert_yaxis_grob
Add/remove the panel border in a ggplot2 plot	panel_border
Arrange multiple plots into a grid	plot_grid
Null devices	agg_null_device cairo_null_device pdf_null_device png_null_device
Create customizable legend key glyphs	circle_key_glyph rectangle_key_glyph
Alternative to 'ggsave()', with better support for multi-figure plots.	save_plot
Sets the null graphics device	set_null_device
Stamp plots with a label, such as good, bad, or ugly.	stamp stamp_bad stamp_good stamp_ugly stamp_wrong
Create the default cowplot theme	theme_cowplot theme_half_open
Create a theme for map plotting	theme_map
Minimalistic themes with grids	theme_minimal_grid theme_minimal_hgrid theme_minimal_vgrid
Create a completely empty theme	theme_nothing