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Exercise

Alter background color and add margins

Further customize the look of your plot with more arguments to the theme function call. You can continue working on your ilo_plot object created in the last exercise.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Change the overall background color of your plot to "gray95".
    • This time, another function than element_text is needed – one for rectangular plot elements. Rewatch the video to know which.
  • Add margins to the plot: 5mm top and bottom, 10mm to the left and the right.
  • The margins need to be specified in the following order: top, right, bottom, and left.