Feature request: Could scales::number etc have a style_negative option of "none"?

[davidhodge931]

"none" is useful option for population pyramids, where you hack the data by multiplying the Female population

This should also flow into all of the label_*() functions.

So the argument would look like...

number(
  ...,
  style_negative = c("hyphen", "minus", "parens", "none"),

and the help would have an extra bullet...

• "none" removes any negative styling.

Could be something for Tidy Dev Day?

[davidsirl]

My experience is that this is possible with a slightly different approach to that suggested:

scale_x_continuous(breaks = pop_breaks, labels = abs(pop_breaks)),

where pop_breaks is organised beforehand as values_plotted |> abs() |> max() and then using base::pretty() to make the breakpoints nice round numbers.

(https://www.njtierney.com/post/2022/08/09/ggplot-pyramid/ was my source for that)

One can "tidy up" such labels further by using comma() but (i) comma() is superseded and (ii) I do not see how to do the same sort of thing with the superseding function label_comma().

(Hope that's constructive - first time issue-commenter :) )

[teunbrand]

I'm sorry David but I genuinely think this is not a good idea, but I get why it might be useful.
Overall, omitting a minus indication is misleading and we want to make it harder to put up misleading labels, not easier.
I get this then requires some extra effort to label pyramid plots, but this is a specialised plot and the creator should just take some care to abs() their values before labelling.

[davidhodge931]

Cool, thanks @teunbrand