Feature request: Interactive plot viewer to identify theme elements

[dmuenz]

The interactive plot in Teun van den Brand's Tidyverse blog post about ggplot2 styling (https://tidyverse.org/blog/2025/10/ggplot2-styling/) is very cool, beautifully and clearly showing which theme elements are associated with each graphical element. Request: Could ggplot2 add a new function that creates an interactive plot like this from a regular ggplot?

I'm imagining that in RStudio this function would cause the plot to appear in the Viewer tab and let a user easily identify which theme element they're looking for. E.g., I can never remember that facet headers are called "strips", making it difficult to find, say, theme(strip.background). Of course, I could just google it, but the interactive plot would make for a better workflow, especially if I need to identify and modify multiple theme elements.

Thanks for your consideration!

[teunbrand]

Hi there, thank you for the kind words! I agree that an interactive plot is useful, however, I may disagree that the function to display such an interactive plot should live in ggplot2. It'd require another dependency, which I'd like to avoid. This shouldn't be an impediment to developing a seperate package that provides this functionality.