Software and Programmer Efficiency Research Group

A geom that draws nothing. It just creates an empty layer.

Parameters

geom_blank() has no parameters.

Example

Note that while geom_blank() draws nothing, ggplot2 needs a way to compute the x and y scales of the plot. Thus, we have to provide a data frame and an x and a y aesthetic somewhere. This could be as arguments to geom_blank(), but here we pass the information as arguments to ggplot(...) itself.

d=data.frame(x=c(1,2,3,4), y=c(4,5,6,7))
ggplot(data=d, mapping=aes(x=x, y=y)) +
geom_blank() +
opts(title="geom_blank", plot.title=theme_text(size=40, vjust=1.5))