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Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 8d

Take your plots from drab to fab! #ggplot2

Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 8d

🎨 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.

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Collin Berke @collinberke.bsky.social · 11d

I got introduced to @randyau.com's 'Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work' post during the #dataBS Conf this week: www.counting-stuff.com/data-cleanin... . I just finished--it was a great read.

Here are some quotes and thoughts I'm walking away with 👇

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Data Cleaning IS Analysis, Not Grunt Work

Also, most data cleaning articles suck

www.counting-stuff.com

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 11d

Very strange flower. Nothing else like it in nz

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 11d

Rewarewa

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 14d

I'm for trailing commas

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 14d

I never write informative git messages or chunk commits in a logical way. Git add . Git commit -m "Update" git push

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 16d

The rationale why it isn't in ggplot2 is provided here github.com/tidyverse/gg...

Could functionality be provided to easily retrieve plot height and plot width neatly? · Issue #6367 · tidyverse/ggplot2

Awesome new feature re theme panel.widths and panel.heights! Could ggplot2 provide get_plot_height and get_plot_width functions to support saving plots where the panel.widths and panel.heights have...

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 16d

save_plot in DEV version of {ggh4x} by @teunbrand.bsky.social saves a plot with set panel dimensions very nicely. Apparently, it won't work 100% of the time. Hence it being in {ggh4x}, rather than {ggplot2} teunbrand.github.io/ggh4x/refere...

Save a ggplot — save_plot

This is a wrapper for ggsave() that attempts to make a reasonable guess at the plot size, particularly if they have been set in the theme(panel.widths, panel.heights) settings or when the force_panels...

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 17d

Enjoyed Hadley's keynote at Posit 2025. But disagreed with the statement that AI can't do maths. My understanding (& testing) of Claude.ai is that it can. If it identifies it's a maths question, it runs code in the background, and then provides the answer back in natural language #rstats #posit2025

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rmarkdown.bsky.social @rmarkdown.bsky.social · Aug 17

Got a #Shiny app idea but don’t know where to start? 🤔Shiny Assistant can help you get unstuck and start building: shiny.posit.co/blog/posts/s... #RLang #ShinyApps #DataScience

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 20d

Posit::conf(2026) will be in Houston, Sept. 14-16
- announced now at #Positconf2025

#Positconf2026 #Positconf #RStats

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 22d

Same here..

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

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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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 29d

Yeah, will release something prob in the next month or so. The main idea was to create functions to annotate components of the theme, but I also expanded on that. Claude helped me a lot

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 29d

Playing around with some new annotate_* helper functions in development #rstats

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 29d

Really didn't like ~.x. I actually don't like all use of dot prefixes. i.e. .data, .col etc. It looks messy and inconsistent, and it's impossible to remember what is dot prefixed and what is not. I'm sure there are reasons for doing this. But I wonder if it is worth it

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 29d

|> looks a bit better. I find \(x) x much more elegant in that it connects nicely as shorthand for function(x) x

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · 29d

Will be virtualing in from New Zealand. Timezone is difficult, so will only be online from the afternoon. Looking forward to it!

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · Sep 8

Can {marquee} do this too?

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · Sep 3

setwd("C:\Users\jenny\path\that\only\I\have") www.tidyverse.org/blog/2017/12...

Project-oriented workflow

Advice on workflows for developing R scripts. How to think about whether an action belongs in the script or elsewhere.

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · Sep 3

You can change an argument to make the gridlines "white", but seeing as it looks fairly good.. I could just make a grey2 theme and a beige2 theme, as it's nice to not even think about theme elements when you're not familar with them..

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · Sep 3

I'm creating a bunch of flexible themes for a mega update of #ggblanket.. They're all the same, but different defaults for colours to make things easy. I've currently got a grey, beige, light, and dark one. Then I wondered about alternative grey/beige options with white gridlines. Thoughts? #rstats

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · Sep 2

Forgot to mention that another good thing is that you can easily hash out argument lines, and the function still runs. Of course, the con is some functions don't support it, and this can trip you up

David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just googled.. Like this? Looks like it'd take a bit to get used to! Think I'll stick to trailing

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David Hodge @davidhodge931.bsky.social · Sep 2

I really love trailing commas. You often never know how many args you need when you start, and it makes it easier to incrementally add to it. Think all DEVs should support where they can #rstats

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