How to change the default font size in ggplot2

Question

I'd like to know if it is possible to change some default parameters of ggplot2 graphics, like font size for instance, for a whole R session. The idea is to avoid setting them for each plot.

Answer 1

To change the default font size in ggplot2, you can use the theme_set() function as follows:

theme_set(theme_gray(base_size = 15))

For example:

ggplot(mpg, aes(cty, hwy)) + geom_point()

Output: