
The cowplot package provides various features that help with creatingpublication-quality figures, such as a set of themes, functions to alignplots and arrange them into complex compound figures, and functions thatmake it easy to annotate plots and or mix plots with images. The packagewas originally written for internal use in the Wilke lab, hence the name(Claus O. Wilke’s plot package). It has also been used extensively inthe bookFundamentals of DataVisualization.
The cowplot package is available onCRAN and can beinstalled via
install.packages("cowplot")To install the latest development version of the package using thedevtools package, enter the following in your R console:
remotes::install_github("wilkelab/cowplot")To get a quick introduction to the main features of this package,read theintroductoryvignette. For a more in-depth discussion, readallvignettes and/or thereferencedocumentation.