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merge_element

Merge a parent element into a child element


Description

This is a generic and element classes must provide an implementation of this method

Usage

merge_element(new, old)

## Default S3 method:
merge_element(new, old)

## S3 method for class 'element_blank'
merge_element(new, old)

## S3 method for class 'element'
merge_element(new, old)

Arguments

new

The child element in the theme hierarchy

old

The parent element in the theme hierarchy

Value

A modified version of new updated with the properties of old

Examples

new <- element_text(colour = "red")
old <- element_text(colour = "blue", size = 10)

# Adopt size but ignore colour
merge_element(new, old)

ggplot2

Create Elegant Data Visualisations Using the Grammar of Graphics

v3.3.3
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Hadley Wickham [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4757-117X>), Winston Chang [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-2126>), Lionel Henry [aut], Thomas Lin Pedersen [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-4711>), Kohske Takahashi [aut], Claus Wilke [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7470-9261>), Kara Woo [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5125-4188>), Hiroaki Yutani [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3385-7233>), Dewey Dunnington [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9415-4582>), RStudio [cph, fnd]
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