cowplot

Streamlined Plot Theme and Plot Annotations for 'ggplot2'

v1.2.0 · Jul 7, 2025 · GPL-2

Description

Provides various features that help with creating publication-quality figures with 'ggplot2', such as a set of themes, functions to align plots and arrange them into complex compound figures, and functions that make it easy to annotate plots and or mix plots with images. The package was originally written for internal use in the Wilke lab, hence the name (Claus O. Wilke's plot package). It has also been used extensively in the book Fundamentals of Data Visualization.

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Version History

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new 1.2.0 Mar 10, 2026

updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.3 diff Jul 6, 2025

updated 1.1.3 ← 1.1.2 diff Jan 22, 2024

updated 1.1.2 ← 1.1.1 diff Dec 14, 2023

updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1.0 diff Dec 29, 2020

updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Sep 7, 2020

updated 1.0.0 ← 0.9.4 diff Jul 10, 2019

updated 0.9.4 ← 0.9.3 diff Jan 7, 2019

updated 0.9.3 ← 0.9.2 diff Jul 14, 2018

updated 0.9.2 ← 0.9.1 diff Dec 16, 2017

updated 0.9.1 ← 0.9.0 diff Nov 15, 2017

updated 0.9.0 ← 0.8.0 diff Nov 15, 2017

updated 0.8.0 ← 0.7.0 diff Jul 29, 2017

updated 0.7.0 ← 0.6.3 diff Oct 27, 2016

updated 0.6.3 ← 0.6.2 diff Sep 29, 2016