Remove blank squares from waffle chart

Question

I'm trying to make a waffle chart in R using the waffle package. I don't have an even number of entries (49) and I get blank filler squares in my otherwise perfect chart (see purple/blue squares).

Here is an example of the code:

library('waffle')
basedata <- c(11,38)
names(basedata) <- c("Awsome", "Not Awsome")
waffle(basedata, rows = 2)

Any idea how to remove the blank filler squares?

Answer 1

You don't need to "white out" the fillers. It's a known weird behaviour of waffle.

Just pass two colors:

waffle(basedata, rows = 2, colors = c("blue", "red"))