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Geologic Timescale Color Scheme for ggplot2 and ggraph

Source: R/scale_colour_science.R
scale_stratigraphy.Rd

Provides the geologic timescale color scheme.

Usage

scale_colour_stratigraphy(..., lang = "en", aesthetics = "colour")

scale_color_stratigraphy(..., lang = "en", aesthetics = "colour")

scale_fill_stratigraphy(..., lang = "en", aesthetics = "fill")

scale_edge_colour_stratigraphy(..., lang = "en")

scale_edge_color_stratigraphy(..., lang = "en")

scale_edge_fill_stratigraphy(..., lang = "en")

Arguments

...

Arguments passed on to ggplot2::discrete_scale().

lang

A character string specifying the language for the color names (see details). It must be one of "en" (english, the default), "fr" (french) or NULL. If not NULL, the values will be matched based on the color names.

aesthetics

A character string or vector of character strings listing the name(s) of the aesthetic(s) that this scale works with.

Value

A discrete scale.

Details

Values will be matched based on the geological unit names.

References

Commission for the Geological Map of the World.

See also

Other themed color schemes: scale_colour_land(), scale_colour_soil()

Other qualitative color schemes: scale_colour_land(), scale_colour_soil(), scale_logical_discrete, scale_okabeito_discrete, scale_tol_bright, scale_tol_dark, scale_tol_discreterainbow, scale_tol_highcontrast, scale_tol_light, scale_tol_mediumcontrast, scale_tol_muted, scale_tol_pale, scale_tol_vibrant

Author

N. Frerebeau

Examples

library(ggplot2)

strati <- data.frame(
  name = c("Phanerozoic", "Paleozoic", "Cambrian", "Ordovician", "Silurian",
           "Devonian", "Carboniferous", "Mesozoic", "Triassic", "Cretaceous",
           "Jurassic", "Cenozoic", "Paleogene", "Neogene", "Quaternary"),
  type = c("Eon", "Era", "Period", "Period", "Period", "Period", "Period",
           "Era", "Period", "Period", "Period", "Era", "Period", "Period",
           "Period"),
  start = c(541, 541, 541, 485, 444, 419, 359,
            252, 252, 201, 145, 66, 66, 23, 2.6),
  end = c(0, 252, 485, 444, 419, 359, 252,
          66, 201, 145, 66, 2.6, 23, 2.6, 0)
)

## Keep chronological order in the legend
strati$name <- factor(strati$name, levels = rev(unique(strati$name)),
                      ordered = TRUE)

## Workaround: use `limits = force` to remove unused values
ggplot2::ggplot(strati) +
  ggplot2::geom_rect(ggplot2::aes(xmin = rep(0, 15), xmax = rep(1, 15),
                                  ymin = start, ymax = end, fill = name)) +
  ggplot2::scale_y_reverse() +
  ggplot2::facet_grid(. ~ type) +
  scale_fill_stratigraphy(name = "Stratigraphy", limits = force)