survminer (version 0.4.7)

theme_survminer: Theme for Survminer Plots

Description

Default theme for plots generated with survminer.

Usage

theme_survminer(
  base_size = 12,
  base_family = "",
  font.main = c(16, "plain", "black"),
  font.submain = c(15, "plain", "black"),
  font.x = c(14, "plain", "black"),
  font.y = c(14, "plain", "black"),
  font.caption = c(15, "plain", "black"),
  font.tickslab = c(12, "plain", "black"),
  legend = c("top", "bottom", "left", "right", "none"),
  font.legend = c(10, "plain", "black"),
  ...
)
theme_cleantable(base_size = 12, base_family = "", ...)

Arguments

base_size

base font size

base_family

base font family

font.main, font.submain, font.caption, font.x, font.y, font.tickslab, font.legend

a vector of length 3 indicating respectively the size (e.g.: 14), the style (e.g.: "plain", "bold", "italic", "bold.italic") and the color (e.g.: "red") of main title, subtitle, caption, xlab and ylab, axis tick labels and legend, respectively. For example font.x = c(14, "bold", "red"). Use font.x = 14, to change only font size; or use font.x = "bold", to change only font face.

legend

character specifying legend position. Allowed values are one of c("top", "bottom", "left", "right", "none"). Default is "top" side position. to remove the legend use legend = "none". Legend position can be also specified using a numeric vector c(x, y); see details section.

...

additional arguments passed to the function theme_survminer().

Functions

• theme_survminer: Default theme for survminer plots. A theme similar to theme_classic() with large font size.

• theme_cleantable: theme for drawing a clean risk table and cumulative number of events table. A theme similar to theme_survminer() without i) axis lines and, ii) x axis ticks and title.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Fit survival curves
#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
require("survival")
fit<- survfit(Surv(time, status) ~ sex, data = lung)

# Basic survival curves
#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ggsurv <- ggsurvplot(fit, data = lung, risk.table = TRUE,
   main = "Survival curves",
   submain = "Based on Kaplan-Meier estimates",
   caption = "created with survminer"
   )

# Change font size, style and color
#++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
# Change font size, style and color at the same time
# Use font.x = 14, to change only font size; or use
# font.x = "bold", to change only font face.
ggsurv %+% theme_survminer(
     font.main = c(16, "bold", "darkblue"),
     font.submain = c(15, "bold.italic", "purple"),
     font.caption = c(14, "plain", "orange"),
     font.x = c(14, "bold.italic", "red"),
     font.y = c(14, "bold.italic", "darkred"),
     font.tickslab = c(12, "plain", "darkgreen")
   )

# Clean risk table
# +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ggsurv$table <- ggsurv$table + theme_cleantable()
ggsurv

# }