Partial margins

[teunbrand]

This PR aims to fix #6115.

Briefly it allows NA-units in margin() that get back-filled from parent elements. The function part_margin() is a margin() wrapper that by default has NA-units.

A demonstration. Note no margins except bottom:

devtools::load_all("~/packages/ggplot2")
#> ℹ Loading ggplot2

p <- ggplot(mpg, aes(displ, hwy)) +
  geom_point() +
  theme(plot.background = element_rect(linetype = 2, colour = "black", fill = NA))

p + 
  theme(plot.margin = margin(b = 2, unit = "cm")) +
  ggtitle("`margin()`")

Note natural margins are preserved, except bottom:

p + 
  theme(plot.margin = part_margin(b = 2, unit = "cm")) +
  ggtitle("`part_margin()`")

^{Created on 2024-09-19 with reprex v2.1.1}

[davidhodge931]

Great work, @teunbrand

I think it might be helpful for users, if this was named with a margin prefix? This would organise the two functions, so that auto-complete would allow users to easily use the normal one - or switch to the partial one.

So margin_part (or margin_partial)

[teunbrand]

Thanks David, I like this suggestion :)