guides_basic {ggplot} | R Documentation

## Default guides

### Description

Generate default guides (legends, axes, and labels).

### Usage

    guides_basic(plot, scales=scales_default(plot))

### Arguments

`plot` | plot object
`scales` | plot scales

### Details

The default guides built for a plot are:

- the background colour over the whole plotting area (white)
- within each a panel a gray background with white gridlines (see `ggplot.options`) to change)
- vertical and horizontal axes (appearance control by options to the position scales)
- facetting labels (see `ggplot.options`) to change default colours etc)

  To decouple plot construction from the objects that are placed within it, each of the grobs produced by this function uses a `vpPath`.

  ### Value

  `background list of grobs to appear in background` |
  `grid grobs that form background grob` |
  `axes_v vertical axes` |
  `axes_h horizontal axes` |
  `labels row and column labels` |

  ### Author(s)

  Hadley Wickham <h.wickham@gmail.com>

  ### Examples

  [Package ggplot version 0.2.2 Index]