Brand Guideline Styling for New York City Council Reports & Dashboards • councildown

The councildown package implements style guide compliant defaults for R Markdown documents, ggplot2 plots, and leaflet maps.

Installation

You can install the released version of councildown from GitHub

remotes::install_github("newyorkcitycouncil/councildown")

Load Package

Note that the order of loading the libraries is important. Make sure to load councildown last.

library(tidyverse)
# load last
library(councildown)

Vignette

For a demo of the functions available, see vignettes/councilverse.Rmd in the councilverse package.

Quick Start

First load the councildown package as above.

ggplot2

On load, common ggplot2 scale_* functions are overwritten with scale_fill_nycc() and scale_color_nycc().

There are 6 color palettes available for scale_fill_nycc() and scale_color_nycc(). Check the documentation for full default parameters. For brand guidelines, see: https://newyorkcitycouncil.github.io/nycc-brand-guidelines/.

palette = "main" for use of primary Council colors. Default for scale_color_nycc().
palette = "mixed" for secondary Council colors. Default for scale_fill_nycc().
palette = "bw" for grey scale.
palette = "warm" for a warm palette.
palette = "cool" for a cool palette.
palette = "diverging" for a diverging palette.

If palette = "single" then the color will be the first color of "main".
If palette = "double", then the color will be the first and second color of "main".

data.frame(x = rnorm(20), y = rnorm(20), z = c("a", "b")) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x, y, color = z)) +
 geom_point() +
 labs(title = "Test",
      subtitle = "Test",
      caption = "Test",
      color = "Legend",
      x = "Test a",
      y = "Test b") +
  scale_color_nycc() +
  theme_nycc()

Additionally, theme_nycc() has an argument facet for changing the theme to better fit faceted plots.

data.frame(x = rnorm(20), y = rnorm(20), z = c("a", "b")) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x, y, color = z)) +
 geom_point() +
 labs(title = "Test",
      subtitle = "Test",
      caption = "Test",
      color = "Legend",
      x = "Test a",
      y = "Test b") +
  facet_wrap(~z) +
  scale_color_nycc() +
  theme_nycc(facet=TRUE)

If you are only using one variable/color, you can add the "single" palette using pal_nycc. Use the "double" palette for two variables/colors.

data.frame(x = rnorm(20), y = rnorm(20)) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x, y)) +
 geom_point(color = pal_nycc("single")) +
 labs(title = "Test",
      subtitle = "Test",
      caption = "Test",
      color = "Legend",
      x = "Test a",
      y = "Test b") +
  theme_nycc()

leaflet

The function addCouncilStyle() sets the default view, zoom, and background. There is an additional option for add_dists to add map tiles and City Council district outlines and labels to leaflet maps. The dist_year option allows for "2023" or "2013" Council District lines.

library(leaflet)
leaflet() %>% 
  addCouncilStyle(add_dists = T, dist_year = "2023")

Additionally, use mapshot to save leaflet maps as a static png image. mapshot() overwrites mapview::mapshot() to force map saves with standardized width, height, and zoom. Use mapview::mapshot if you want the original mapshot function.

map <- leaflet() %>% 
  addCouncilStyle(add_dists = T, dist_year = "2023")
mapshot(map, file = "map.png")

R Markdown

The package includes an R Markdown template for writing Council reports. After installing the package, create a new report by choosing New > R Markdown > From Template > City Council Report in RStudio. [In Progress]

Overview