Package: ggCheysson 1.2.0

ggCheysson: Graphic Styles of Emile Cheysson for 'ggplot2'

Implements for 'ggplot2' the stylistic elements (fonts, hatched patterns, color palettes) used by 'Emile Cheysson' in the 'Albums de Statistique Graphique', sometimes called the pinnacle of the Golden Age of Statistical Graphics.

Authors:Michael Friendly [aut, cre], RJ Andrews [ctb], Tom Shanley [ctb], Kenneth Fields [ctb]

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DESCRIPTION |NEWS
card.svg |card.png
ggCheysson/json (API)

# Install 'ggCheysson' in R:
install.packages('ggCheysson', repos = c('https://friendly.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/friendly/ggcheysson/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://friendly.github.io

Datasets:

On CRAN:

Conda:

data-visualizationhistorical

6.03 score 3 stars 30 scripts 409 downloads 25 exports 17 dependencies

Last updated from:427fbd81d2. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.
A new build is currently in progress.

TargetResultTimeFilesSyslog
linux-develOK129
source / vignettesOK330
linux-releaseOK144
macos-releaseOK154
macos-oldrelOK122
windows-develOK89
windows-releaseOK89
windows-oldrelOK95
wasm-releaseOK118

Exports:aes_cheyssoncheysson_fontcheysson_fonts_availablecheysson_namecheysson_palcheysson_patterncheysson_pattern_paramslist_cheysson_palslist_cheysson_patternsload_cheysson_fontsscale_cheyssonscale_color_cheyssonscale_colour_cheyssonscale_fill_cheyssonscale_fill_cheysson_patternscale_pattern_angle_cheyssonscale_pattern_density_cheyssonscale_pattern_fill_cheyssonscale_pattern_fill2_cheyssonscale_pattern_type_cheyssonshow_paletteshow_palettestheme_cheyssontheme_cheysson_maptheme_cheysson_minimal

Dependencies:clicpp11farverggplot2gluegtableisobandlabelinglifecycleR6RColorBrewerrlangS7scalesvctrsviridisLitewithr

Getting Started with ggCheysson
Introduction | Loading Fonts | Color Palettes | Scatterplot with Sequential Palette | Scatterplot with Categorical Palette | Bar Charts with Patterns | Line Graphs: Time Series | Stacked Area Chart | Faceted Plots: Small Multiples | Grouped Bar Chart with Patterns | Map-Style Visualization | Exploring Different Palette Types | Diverging Palette | Summary | Key Functions | Available Palettes

Last update: 2026-11-03
Started: 2025-12-30

Combining Colors and Patterns
Palettes that combine color and hatching | The long way: one mapping and one scale per property | The short way: swatches and scale_cheysson() | Legends | Ordered data: sequential and diverging palettes | Missing values | Line spacing and density | Using only some of a palette's properties | What is not included

Last update: 2026-11-03
Started: 2026-09-28

Mapping Guerry's Moral Statistics with Cheysson Palettes
Introduction | Required Packages | Loading Fonts | Preparing the Data | Load and Examine Guerry's Data | Load the Map | Join Data with Map | Creating Choropleth Maps | Crime Against Persons (Sequential Palette) | Property Crime (Different Sequential Palette) | Literacy (Grouped Palette) | Literacy with Cheysson Patterns | Charitable Donations (Category Palette) | Donations with Cheysson Patterns | Illegitimate Births (Sequential Palette) | Suicides (Different Sequential Palette) | Small Multiples: Comparing Crime Types | Regional Patterns | Regions with Patterns: Classic Cheysson Cartography | Bivariate Comparison | Historical Context | About Guerry's Data | About the Variables | The Connection to Cheysson | Available Palettes | Summary | Key Cheysson Techniques Illustrated | References

Last update: 2026-11-03
Started: 2025-12-30

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help pageTopics
Album Images MetadataalbumImages
Get Cheysson font family namecheysson_font
Cheysson Font Familiescheysson_fonts
Check if Cheysson fonts are loadedcheysson_fonts_available
Cheysson Palette Naming Crosswalkcheysson_labels
Translate a palette label from another naming scheme to the current namecheysson_name
Get a Cheysson color palettecheysson_pal
Cheysson Color Palettescheysson_palettes
Get Cheysson pattern specificationscheysson_pattern
Create ggpattern-compatible pattern parameterscheysson_pattern_params
Cheysson Pattern Datacheysson_patterns
Cheysson swatches as ggpattern patterns (experimental)cheysson-swatches cheysson_swatches
List available Cheysson paletteslist_cheysson_pals
List available Cheysson pattern paletteslist_cheysson_patterns
Load Cheysson fontsload_cheysson_fonts
Apply a Cheysson color-and-pattern palette in one stepaes_cheysson scale_cheysson
Cheysson color scales for ggplot2scale_color_cheysson scale_colour_cheysson scale_fill_cheysson
Apply Cheysson patterns to fill aestheticscale_fill_cheysson_pattern
Cheysson pattern scales for ggpatternscale_pattern_angle_cheysson scale_pattern_cheysson scale_pattern_density_cheysson scale_pattern_fill2_cheysson scale_pattern_fill_cheysson scale_pattern_type_cheysson
Display a Cheysson palette with color swatches and hex codesshow_palette
Display multiple Cheysson palettesshow_palettes
Cheysson theme for ggplot2theme_cheysson
Cheysson map themetheme_cheysson_map
Minimal Cheysson themetheme_cheysson_minimal