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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · Oct 28

Hi to all the #rstats friends that just followed me! I'm dipping my toes into blogging for the first time, so I've made an introductory post if you want to get to know me:
teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl...

Hello world – Blog | Teun van den Brand

Wherein I introduce myself

teunbrand.github.io

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 15h

No no, I don't love boxplots. Boxplots have blindsplots too. I like showing individual data points (as long as they're tractable). You can throw in whatever summaries too, but eyeballing the data is important :)

Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah using complete themes provided by extension packages is a great way of using themes. I mentioned the ggthemes package as well for this!

Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 1d

I empathise some people might be affected by this change! Hopefully the rest of the features and bugfixes make up for it!

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 1d

Dynamite plots hurt the soul 💔

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 2d

The reason is that ggplot2 can't keep on accumulating a lot of new features, or it risks becoming so big it'll be unmaintainable. It has a great system that allows others to extend its functionality, which is also how the legendry package works.

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 2d

ggiraph is also what I used to make the first plot in this post!
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/10...

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 7d

`ggsave(bg)` is doing the exact same thing. The difference you might see is that themes now adhere to the `ink`/`paper` settings. This also populates the `plot.background` setting, which wasn't always the case before.

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 7d

It sets the device's background colour. If you have a non-transparent `plot.background` setting, it will show on top of the device's background colour.

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Alex Kraieski @alexkraieski.bsky.social · 8d

So far I really like ggplot2 4.0.0 a lot, but the color blending with ink/paper means you can end up with too little contrast in your axis text.

Luckily, you can easily detect this with {colorspace} to prevent accessibility issues. see blog for more info

kraieski.dev/ggplot2-40-i...

#Rstats

ggplot2 4.0 Ink and Paper: Don’t Forget about Axis Text Contrast — Alex Kraieski

ggplot2 4.0.0 has introduced some very useful improvements to themes, but there's at least one color blending and accessibility pitfall you'll want to avoid.

kraieski.dev

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Everyday ggplot2 extension 📊🛠 @ginareynolds.bsky.social · 8d

📊💿🧡🎉 Exciting news!!

'Release party' tomorrow Friday Oct 3rd at 3pm Eastern for #ggplot2 v4.0.0!

With developer and maintainer @teunbrand! bit.ly/join-gg-exte...

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 10d

Take your plots from drab to fab! #ggplot2

Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 10d

🎨 Theming got a huge overhaul with the latest #ggplot2 release. In honour of that @teunbrand.bsky.social has written a comprehensive deep-dive into styling your plots, covering both old and new functionality. Grab a coffee and dive in!

#rstats

ggplot2 styling

This post discusses one function in ggplot2: `theme()`. Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article.

www.tidyverse.org

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Posit @posit.co · 10d

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉

This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.

Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 14d

ALL HAIL THE HORIZONTAL BARPLOT 🫡

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 15d

I'm updating the ggarrow logo. Left is new, right is old. I like that the new one is chaotic, but also recognisable as ggplot2-related due to the background grid and default colour palette. The familiarity counters the chaos.

#rstats #ggplot2

Shows 6 arrows with different hues spiralling outward from the middle of a hexagon. The background is a ggplot2 grid. In the foreground, 'ggarrow' is written horizontally and the 'A' coincides with the arrow head of a 7th arrow.

A yellow hexagon with 3 black arrows pointing upwards reaching different heights. The text 'ggarrow' is placed horizontally, such that the 'A' consides with one of the arrow heads.

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 15d

So sensible! My soul is soothed again 😌

Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 15d

Time to pull out the ol' horizontal barchart bible clauswilke.com/dataviz/visu...

Fundamentals of Data Visualization

A guide to making visualizations that accurately reflect the data, tell a story, and look professional.

clauswilke.com

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 16d

Contribution is contribution!

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Julian Barg @jbarg.bsky.social · 16d

Just saw my profile among the list of contributors to ggplot2 4.0.0 - that is a project I want to be affiliated with for sure. Pretty sure it's just for a ticket I opened. It was resolved within a record two days or something, too. The beauty of a well-running free and open-source software project.

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 16d

The folder 1-up in the hierarchy where my projects/repos live, is littered with half-titled .R files. They contain random snippets of code I found useful but wasn't willing to commit to git yet. I'm sure all of this can be contained in `git stash`, but where'd all the chaos go?

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Florian Lecorvaisier, PhD @flolecorvaisier.bsky.social · 16d

Months ago, I reported an issue in ggplot2 (github.com/tidyverse/gg...). Glad to know that this issue was corrected in v4.0.0, and what a nice surpise to see my name in the acknowledgements of this new version!
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

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Jose M Sallan @jmsallan.bsky.social · 20d

Aesthetics evaluation control in #ggplot #Rstats
jmsallan.netlify.app/blog/aesthet...

Aesthetics Evaluation Control in ggplot

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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 19d

Probably related to ggplot2's S7 updates, which means it is more strict about types in `element_text(family)`. However, you can also swap the `ink` and `paper` setting in ggplot2's themes to make a dark theme now.

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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 22d

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 now supports absolute plot dimensions 🤩

#rstats #dataviz #phd

library(tidyverse)

mtcars |>
head(8) |>
rownames_to_column("name") |>
ggplot(aes(x = drat, y = name, fill = name)) +
geom_col() +
theme(panel.widths = unit(50, "mm"), panel.heights = unit(50, "mm"))

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Sebastian Carl @mrcaseb.com · 23d

Happy to announce that my R package {ggpath} v 1.1.0 just hit CRAN. It fully supports ggplot2 v4.
mrcaseb.github.io/ggpath/index...

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Guillaume Noblet @gnoblet.bsky.social · 25d

And I used #ggplot2 new v4.0.0 btw, to produce the below graph with the splendid new palette.fill.discrete argument in `theme()`.

@posit.co #tidverse #rstats #dataviz

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