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R in 3 Months (Spring 2026)

Customize Your Fonts

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# Load Packages -----------------------------------------------------------

library(tidyverse)
library(fs)
library(scales)
library(ggrepel)
library(marquee)

# Create Directory --------------------------------------------------------

dir_create("data")

# Download Data -----------------------------------------------------------

download.file(
  "https://github.com/rfortherestofus/going-deeper-positron/raw/main/data/third_grade_math_proficiency.rds",
  mode = "wb",
  destfile = "data/third_grade_math_proficiency.rds"
)

# Import Data -------------------------------------------------------------

third_grade_math_proficiency <-
  read_rds("data/third_grade_math_proficiency.rds") |>
  select(
    academic_year,
    school,
    school_id,
    district,
    proficiency_level,
    number_of_students
  ) |>
  mutate(
    is_proficient = case_when(
      proficiency_level >= 3 ~ TRUE,
      .default = FALSE
    )
  ) |>
  group_by(academic_year, school, district, school_id, is_proficient) |>
  summarize(number_of_students = sum(number_of_students, na.rm = TRUE)) |>
  ungroup() |>
  group_by(academic_year, school, district, school_id) |>
  mutate(
    percent_proficient = number_of_students /
      sum(number_of_students, na.rm = TRUE)
  ) |>
  ungroup() |>
  filter(is_proficient == TRUE) |>
  select(academic_year, school, district, percent_proficient) |>
  rename(year = academic_year)


# Theme ------------------------------------------------------------------

theme_dk <- function() {
  theme_minimal(base_family = "IBM Plex Mono") +
    theme(
      axis.title = element_blank(),
      legend.position = "none",
      panel.grid = element_blank(),
      plot.title = element_marquee(width = 1),
      plot.title.position = "plot"
    )
}

# Plot --------------------------------------------------------------------

top_growth_school <-
  third_grade_math_proficiency |>
  filter(district == "Portland SD 1J") |>
  group_by(school) |>
  mutate(
    growth_from_previous_year = percent_proficient - lag(percent_proficient)
  ) |>
  ungroup() |>
  slice_max(
    order_by = growth_from_previous_year,
    n = 1
  ) |>
  pull(school)


plot_title <-
  marquee_glue(
    "{.orange **{top_growth_school}**} showed large growth 
        in math proficiency over the last two years"
  )

third_grade_math_proficiency |>
  filter(district == "Portland SD 1J") |>
  mutate(
    highlight_school = case_when(
      school == top_growth_school ~ "Y",
      .default = "N"
    )
  ) |>
  mutate(
    school = fct_relevel(
      school,
      top_growth_school,
      after = Inf
    )
  ) |>
  mutate(
    percent_proficient_formatted = percent(percent_proficient, accuracy = 1)
  ) |>
  mutate(
    percent_proficient_formatted = case_when(
      highlight_school == "Y" & year == "2021-2022" ~
        str_glue(
          "{percent_proficient_formatted} of students
          were proficient
          in {year}"
        ),
      highlight_school == "Y" & year == "2018-2019" ~
        percent_proficient_formatted
    )
  ) |>
  ggplot(
    aes(
      x = year,
      y = percent_proficient,
      color = highlight_school,
      group = school,
      label = percent_proficient_formatted
    )
  ) +
  geom_line() +
  geom_text_repel(
    hjust = 0,
    lineheight = 0.9,
    direction = "x",
    family = "IBM Plex Mono"
  ) +
  scale_color_manual(
    values = c(
      "Y" = "orange",
      "N" = "gray80"
    )
  ) +
  scale_x_discrete(
    expand = expansion(add = c(0, 0.5))
  ) +
  scale_y_continuous(
    labels = percent_format(),
    limits = c(0, 1)
    # expand = expansion(add = c(0.1, 0.2))
  ) +
  annotate(
    geom = "text",
    x = 2.02,
    y = 0.6,
    hjust = 0,
    lineheight = 0.9,
    color = "gray70",
    label = str_glue(
      "Each gray line
    represents one
    school"
    )
  ) +
  labs(
    title = plot_title
  ) +
  theme_dk()

Your Turn

  1. Install the {ragg} and {systemfonts} packages.

  2. Apply a custom font to your plot.

Learn More

Cara Thompson has a great article on getting fonts to work in R.

If you want to go really deep on custom fonts in R, check out this article by June Choe.

Have any questions? Put them below and we will help you out!

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