You can change the default global theme (background color, grid lines etc. all non-data display):
# go back to a previous plot p <- ggplot(data=df_long, mapping=aes(x=value)) + geom_histogram() # Try different themes p + theme_bw()
p + theme_minimal()
p + theme_void()
p + theme_grey()
p + theme_dark()
p + theme_light()