ggmemes

A package for creating political compass charts with ggplot

Introduction to ggmemes

Automated art for the 21st century

Author: Ethan Milne, PhD Student (Marketing/Consumer Behavior), Ivey Business School

Purpose: Personal amusement

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Political Compass Format

Suppose you have a dataframe df, and want to create a political compass based on it. With gg_politicalcompass(), doing this can be done in only a couple lines of code. First, you need to initialize a ggplot object, shown below:

gg_politicalcompass(data = df)

This results in the following output:

To add data to this plot, you can use the pre-existing ggplot function, geom_point:

gg_politicalcompass(data = data) +
  geom_point(aes(x = x,
                 y = y,
                 size = value))

This results in the following output:

Labels can be changed with the optional parameters “top”, “bottom”, “left”, and “right” within the function call. For example:

gg_politicalcompass(data = data,
                    top = "good",
                    bottom = "evil",
                    left = "chaotic",
                    right = "lawful"
                    )

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Installation

You can install ggmemes with the following code:

devtools::install_github("SEthanMilne/ggmemes")

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Citation

I’m sure this will be used in many peer-reviewed publications. To that end, the citation for ggmemes can be found below:

To cite package ‘ggmemes’ in publications use:

  Ethan Milne (2022). ggmemes. R package version
  0.1.0.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {ggmemes},
    author = {Ethan Milne},
    year = {2022},
    note = {R package version 0.1.0},
  }