making matplotlib graphs look like R by default?

Question

Is there a way to make matplotlib behave identically to R, or almost like R, in terms of plotting defaults? For example R treats its axes pretty differently from

Answer 1

The Seaborn visualisation library can do that. For example, to reproduce the style of the R histogram use:

sns.despine(offset=10, trim=True)

as in https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/aesthetics.html#removing-axes-spines

To reproduce the style of the R scatter plot use:

sns.set_style("ticks")

as shown in https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/aesthetics.html#seaborn-figure-styles