I am trying to make a plot with no information beyond the data. No axes; no grid; no title; just the plot.
But I keep getting extra margins and padding that I can\'t
From ggplot2_2.0.0 you can use theme_void:
theme_void
ggplot() + geom_area(data = economics, aes(x = date, y = unemploy), linetype = 0) + theme_void()