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teunbrand.bsky.social
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Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should. I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

I am excited to share a new version of svglite for #rstats with the world. It includes support for all the new features in the graphics engine as well as providing a more powerful and polished experience for embedding web fonts in the file. Read all about it her:

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Look: new stuff! Happy to have contributed to this release ^_^

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

We're three weeks out from the 'plotnine' meeting at the #ggplot2 extenders group - 'A Grammar of Graphics for Python'! 📊📈🐍 Interested in joining? ggplot2-extenders.github.io/ggplot-extension-club/ 'Please leave your contact info...'

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Today I played around with the maquee package for text styling by @thomasp85.com. The custom styling system is very nice. Here is a simple example.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

{tidyplots}, built on ggplot2, offers a new 'intuitive syntax to add, remove, and adjust plot components...' and has gained a lot of attention. 👀 github.com/jbengler/tid... We'll discuss the syntactical departure Wednesday #ggplot2 at 3pm Eastern with @jbengler.de. 🤩 Join info in 🧵⤵️

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve been using the new gradients and patterns in #rstats and #ggplot2 quite a bit for recent package, so here’s a deep dive! Everything from the basics of using gradients in your plots through to sophisticated visual effects. jamesgoldie.dev/writing/stac...

submitted 74 days ago • 8 comments

🎉📊🚀 Tomorrow at 3pm Eastern! Winston Chang joins ggplot2 extenders to talk about the R Graphics Cookbook and ggproto! @winstonchang.bsky.social Interested in joining? ➡️ ggplot2-extenders.github.io/ggplot-exten... -> 'Please leave your contact info' #rstats #ggplot2

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Every time I fire up #rstats I end up finding really great new functionality / packages. Like this ggh4x::facet_manual() function. It allows you to rearrange ggplot2 facets in arbitrary ways, much like the patchwork package allows for multiple ggplots. teunbrand.github.io/ggh4x/refere...

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

🎉🎉🎉 Delighted to share ⤵️⤵️ Winston Chang will join ggplot2 extenders meetup to talk about the R Graphics Cookbook and ggproto (a ggplot2 internals building block -critical to extension)! Happening next Wednesday, March 5th at 3pm Eastern! To attend, see thread 🧵

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

@lionelhenry.bsky.social and I are so excited to finally announce Air - an extremely fast R code formatter! 🎉 With Air, you'll never need to worry about styling your #rstats code ever again. All you need to do is save, and Air takes care of the rest. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

submitted 98 days ago • 21 comments

New #rstats pkg gander is now on CRAN! gander is a coding assistant that knows how describe the objects in your global R environment. So, when you're working with data, LLMs will know the names, types, and distributions of data columns, resulting in much more effective completions.

submitted 99 days ago • 2 comments

You can probably get something like this cookin' with @teunbrand.bsky.social's legendry package ++ gizmo_histogram() teunbrand.github.io/legendry/ref...

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

#ggplot2 extenders update! 🎉 Will hear from Mitchell O'Hara-Wild on {ggtime} next week. And from Winston Chang on the early days of ggproto and about the R Graphics Cookbook! Interested? -> teunbrand.github.io/ggplot-exten... -> 'Please leave your contact info...' #rstats

submitted 115 days ago • 3 comments