I’m excited to announce the first release of the ggfx package, a package that brings R native filtering to grid and ggplot2 for the first time. You can install ggfx with:

install.packages('ggfx')

The purpose of ggfx is to give you access to effects that would otherwise require you to ...

I’m delighted to announce that a new version of patchwork has been released on CRAN. This new version contains both a bunch of small bug fixes as well as some prominent features which will be showcased below. If you are unaware of patchwork, it is ...

I was sure I had released this… Honestly, I thought the new version of ambient had landed on CRAN a year ago. What does that say about me as a developer? Probably not something very positive. One reason is probably that ambient is one of my smaller packages mostly made ...

This is a short practical post about programming with R. Take it for what it is and nothing more… R is slow! That is what they keep telling us (they being someone who “knows” about “real” programming and has another language that they for some reason fail to be critical ...

I am super, super thrilled to finally be able to announce that patchwork has been released on CRAN. Patchwork has, without a doubt, been my most popular unreleased package and it is great to finally make it available to everyone. Patchwork is a package for composing plots, i.e. placing ...

I’m happy to announce that farver 2.0 has landed on CRAN. This is a big release comprising of a rewrite of much of the internals along with a range of new functions and improvements. Read on to find out what this is all about. The case for farver The first ...

I am beyond excited to finally be able to announce a new version of ggraph. This release, like the ggforce 0.3.0 release, has been many years in the making, laying dormant for long periods first waiting for ggplot2 to get updated and then waiting for me to have time to finally ...

When I announced the last release of ggforce I hinted that I would like to transition to a more piecemeal release habit and avoid those monster releases that the last one was. True to my word, I am now thrilled to announce that a new version of ggforce is available ...

After what seems like a lifetime (at least to me), a new feature release of ggforce is available on CRAN. ggforce is my general purpose extension package for ggplot2, my first early success, what got me on twitter in the first place, and ultimately instrumental in my career move towards ...

Just to start of the year in a positive way, I’m happy to announce that gganimate is now available on CRAN. This release is the result of a pretty focused development starting in the spring 2018 prior to my useR keynote about it. Some History The g...

Once again, I gives me great pleasure to announce a new package has joined CRAN. transformr is the spatial brother of tweenr and as with the tweenr update a few months ago, this package is very much driven by the infrastructural needs of gganimate. It is probably the last piece ...

NOTE: tweenr was released some time ago but a theft of my computer while writing the release post meant that I only just finished writing about it now. I’m very happy to once again announce a package update, as a new major version of tweenr is now on CRAN. ...

This is my first blog post about gganimate — a package I’ve been working on since mid-spring this year. I have many thoughts and lots to say about animation and gganimate, so much in fact that it has seemed too big a task to begin writing about. Further, I felt ...

I’m happy to once again announce the release of a package. This time it happens to be a rather unplanned and quick new package, which is fun for a change. The package in question is scico which provides access to the colour palettes developed by Fabio Crameri as well ...

I’m happy to report a new major release of lime has landed on CRAN. lime is an R port of the Python library of the same name by Marco Ribeiro that allows the user to pry open black box machine learning models and explain their outcomes on a per-observation ...

I got a new package on CRAN! It’s called particles and it sits right in the perfect intersection of fun, cool, and useful. If you don’t believe me, have a look at the Venn diagram below — charts don’t lie! So what is this all about? particles is ...

I am very pleased to tell you that the next version of tidygraph (1.1) is now available on CRAN. This is not a bug-fix release, nor a change-it-all release, but rather a more-of-it-all release, and in this post I’m going to tell you all about it. The idea of tidygraph ...

Say what you will about 2017 - it sure made an impact. In the broader view I’m pretty sure all sensible people can agree that that impact was predominantly negative, but even so, small pockets of good can happen. So, here’s a short post about all (...

There are many ways to utilize fiery: It can be the engine behind a local running web-app, it can serve a dynamic site running on your own server, or it can serve a more demanding service by running in the cloud. In this post I’m going to focus on ...