

.. _sphx_glr_gallery_style_sheets_ggplot.py:


==================
ggplot style sheet
==================

This example demonstrates the "ggplot" style, which adjusts the style to
emulate ggplot_ (a popular plotting package for R_).

These settings were shamelessly stolen from [1]_ (with permission).

.. [1] http://www.huyng.com/posts/sane-color-scheme-for-matplotlib/

.. _ggplot: http://ggplot2.org/
.. _R: https://www.r-project.org/





.. image:: /gallery/style_sheets/images/sphx_glr_ggplot_001.png
    :align: center





.. code-block:: python

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    plt.style.use('ggplot')

    # Fixing random state for reproducibility
    np.random.seed(19680801)

    fig, axes = plt.subplots(ncols=2, nrows=2)
    ax1, ax2, ax3, ax4 = axes.ravel()

    # scatter plot (Note: `plt.scatter` doesn't use default colors)
    x, y = np.random.normal(size=(2, 200))
    ax1.plot(x, y, 'o')

    # sinusoidal lines with colors from default color cycle
    L = 2*np.pi
    x = np.linspace(0, L)
    ncolors = len(plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle'])
    shift = np.linspace(0, L, ncolors, endpoint=False)
    for s in shift:
        ax2.plot(x, np.sin(x + s), '-')
    ax2.margins(0)

    # bar graphs
    x = np.arange(5)
    y1, y2 = np.random.randint(1, 25, size=(2, 5))
    width = 0.25
    ax3.bar(x, y1, width)
    ax3.bar(x + width, y2, width,
            color=list(plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle'])[2]['color'])
    ax3.set_xticks(x + width)
    ax3.set_xticklabels(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'])

    # circles with colors from default color cycle
    for i, color in enumerate(plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle']):
        xy = np.random.normal(size=2)
        ax4.add_patch(plt.Circle(xy, radius=0.3, color=color['color']))
    ax4.axis('equal')
    ax4.margins(0)

    plt.show()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.107 seconds)



.. container:: sphx-glr-footer


  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Python source code: ggplot.py <ggplot.py>`



  .. container:: sphx-glr-download

     :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: ggplot.ipynb <ggplot.ipynb>`

.. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature

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