Plotting Time Series in R (New Cyberpunk Theme)
Written by Matt Dancho on December 30, 2020
This article is part of a R-Tips Weekly, a weekly video tutorial that shows you step-by-step how to do common R coding tasks.
One of the most common data science visualization is a Time Series plot. In this tutorial we’ll learn how to plot time series using ggplot
, plotly
and timetk
.
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Making a Cyberpunk themed Time Series Plot
It’s super-easy to make a basic time series plot with timetk::plot_time_series()
. But did you know you can customize it!
Here’s how to make a Cyberpunk 2077-themed ggplot.

Step 1
Make a basic plot with timetk::plot_time_series()
. Set .interactive = FALSE
to return a i object.

Step 2
Create a Cyberpunk theme: Pick the colors and simply add to the theme_cyberpunk()
ggplot2 theme function.

Step 3
Customize! Apply ggplot
geom and scale functions along with the previously created theme_cyberpunk()
to make a stunning time-series visualization!

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