Remove geom(s) from an existing ggplot chart?

Question

I am trying to understand how I can make changes to the internals of a ggplot2 chart. I started reading the few ressources I could find about ggplot_built and <

Answer 1

You can use gginnards package to make life easier

library(ggplot2)

### sample plot w/ both points and labels
g <- ggplot(iris, aes(Petal.Length, Petal.Width)) + 
  geom_point() + 
  geom_text(aes(label = Sepal.Width))
g

### https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/gginnards/vignettes/user-guide-2.html
library(gginnards)

### remove points
delete_layers(g, "GeomPoint")

### remove text
delete_layers(g, "GeomText")