Visualization

Recreating Septa Transit Timetables in Python

Learn to build complex table layouts in Great Tables: vertical text, column spanners, and zebra striping

Michael Chow, Rich Iannone

ggplot2 styling

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

Teun Van den Brand

ggplot2 4.0.0

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

Teun Van den Brand

Great Tables v0.18.0: Easy Column Spanners and More!

New in Great Tables v0.18.0: automatic column spanners with tab_spanner_delim(), boolean formatting, and rotated labels

Rich Iannone

Adding Plots to Great Tables

Add sparklines and small charts to your Great Tables using svg.py, HTML, or plotnine

Jules Walzer-Goldfeld, Michael Chow

Great Tables + marimo = Interactive Tables

Make your Great Tables interactive with marimo’s reactive widgets

Rich Iannone, Jerry Wu

svglite 2.2.0

A new release of svglite has arrived, and with it full support for all the latest capabilities of the R Graphics Engine. Further, it finalizes the new approach to handling web fonts and font embedding in the created SVGs

Thomas Lin Pedersen

scales 1.4.0

The new 1.4.0 release of the scales package adds some colourful updates. Read about colour manipulation, palettes and new label functions

Teun Van den Brand

Great Tables: Becoming the Polars .style Property

How Great Tables became Polars’ DataFrame.style—a look at open source collaboration

Michael Chow

How We Used Great Tables to Supercharge Reporting in Pointblank

See how Great Tables powers Pointblank’s beautiful, shareable validation reports

Rich Iannone

Style Table Body with mask= in loc.body()

Style table cells conditionally using Polars expressions with loc.body(mask=)

Updates to Text Rendering in R Graphics

There has been a recent flurry of updates to packages involved in rendering text from R. This blog post will go through what this means for you as a user and developer

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Great Tables v0.15.0: Flags, Icons, and Other Formatting Goodies

New in Great Tables v0.15.0: country flag icons with fmt_flag(), Font Awesome icons, and accounting notation

Rich Iannone

Contributing to Public Transit Data Analysis and Tooling

Working on transit data? Let’s collaborate on open source tools and standards

Michael Chow

Rendering images anywhere in Great Tables

Add images anywhere in your Great Tables with fmt_image() and vals.fmt_image()

Great Tables: Generating LaTeX Output for PDF

Create publication-ready PDF tables by exporting Great Tables to LaTeX

Rich Iannone

Version 0.14.0

Plotnine v0.14.0: requires Python 3.10+, removes print() for rendering, and improves IDE support for scales

Great Tables v0.13.0: Applying styles to all table locations

Great Tables v0.13.0 brings styling to all table locations via expanded loc.*() methods

Rich Iannone, Michael Chow

Great Tables v0.12.0: Google Fonts and zebra stripes

New in Great Tables v0.12.0: Google Fonts via google_font() and zebra striping with opt_row_striping()

Rich Iannone

patchwork 1.3.0

patchwork 1.3.0 has just been released bringing refinements to the free() function and full on support for gt tables

Thomas Lin Pedersen

2024 Plotnine Contest - Last Call

Final call for the 2024 Plotnine Contest—submit your best visualizations by July 26

Great Tables for Scientific Publishing

Format scientific tables in Great Tables: unit notation, chemical formulas, and scientific notation

Rich Iannone

Seeing Beyond Statistics: Anscombe’s Quartet and the Power of Graphs

Why visualizing data matters: recreating Anscombe’s Quartet with Plotnine and Polars

Jeroen Janssens

marquee 0.1.0

The initial release brings markdown awareness to grid and ggplot2 to allow for rich text formatting in R graphics

Thomas Lin Pedersen

PyCon 2024: Making Beautiful, Publication Quality Tables is Possible in 2024

Watch our PyCon 2024 talk on building publication-quality tables with Great Tables

Michael Chow

Great Tables is now BYODF (Bring Your Own DataFrame)

Great Tables v0.5.0 makes Pandas optional—use Polars without pulling in extra dependencies

Michael Chow

The Design Philosophy of Great Tables

Why tables matter: 5,000 years of table design and how Great Tables solves the modern dilemma

Rich Iannone, Michael Chow

Great Tables v0.4.0: Nanoplots and More

New in Great Tables v0.4.0: nanoplots for tiny, interactive visualizations inside table cells

Rich Iannone

ggplot2 3.5.0: Introducing: coord_radial()

Introducing a new polar coordinate system that supersedes the old coord_polar(). Read on about the new coord_radial()

Teun Van den Brand

ggplot2 3.5.0: Axes

The 3.5.0 version of ggplot2 comes with an overhaul of the guide system. Read here what is new for axes

Teun Van den Brand

ggplot2 3.5.0: Legends

The 3.5.0 version of ggplot2 comes with an overhaul of the guide system. Read here what is new for legends

Teun Van den Brand

ggplot2 3.5.0

ggplot2 3.5.0 is now on CRAN. Discover what is new in this release

Teun Van den Brand

Great Tables v0.3.0: So Many Style Options!

New in Great Tables v0.3.0: control column widths, style entire tables, and use system fonts

Rich Iannone

Using Polars to Win at Super Bowl Squares

Use Polars and Great Tables to analyze which Super Bowl Squares give you the best odds

Michael Chow

Great Tables v0.2.0: Easy Data Coloring

New in Great Tables v0.2.0: data_color() for automatic cell coloring based on values

Rich Iannone

Great Tables: The Polars DataFrame Styler of Your Dreams

Style Polars DataFrames for presentation using Great Tables and Polars expressions

Michael Chow

scales 1.3.0

scales 1.3.0 is a minor release focusing on streamlining the API and gradual improvements of the existing utilities

Thomas Lin Pedersen

ggplot2 3.4.0

ggplot2 3.4.0 is now on CRAN. Read all about the (mostly internal) changes that make up this release

Thomas Lin Pedersen

scales 1.2.0

scales 1.2.0 brings a number of small but useful improvements to numeric labels

Hadley Wickham

How To Augment Tableau With R & Python - A Webinar and Case Study from Sweden

In an upcoming webinar on November 17th, Solita will showcase how they successfully combined the strengths of RStudio and Tableau at one of Sweden’s largest government agencies

svglite 2.0.0

svglite 2.0.0 is now on CRAN. This is a huge feature release and part rewrite, and should excite anyone who cares about vector graphics. Read on to find out what is new!

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Custom Google Analytics Dashboards with R: Building The Dashboard

In this post, I continue our series on how to create your own Google Analytics dashboard in R. Using the data we downloaded in our last post, we’ll now create a simple dashboard showing blog page views over time and highlighting the most popular ones

Exploring US COVID-19 Cases and Deaths

Arthur Steinmetz, former Chairman, CEO, and President of OppenheimerFunds, uses R and the tidymodels package to explore the relationship between COVID-19 cases and mortality in the US

Custom Google Analytics Dashboards with R: Downloading Data

This article, the first of three, describes how to use a code-oriented data science approach to Google Analytics data from a blog. It creates custom views of raw GA data while hiding the complexity of the Google Analytics data and interface

Updates to ragg and systemfonts

We have recently updated some of our low-level graphics packages. Read on about what is new in ragg and systemfonts

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Great Looking Tables: gt (v0.2)

Introducing gt v0.2: a grammar of tables for creating beautiful customized display tables in R

ggplot2 3.3.0

The next iteration of ggplot2 has just been released on CRAN, packed with new features and bug fixes. Read all about what’s new here

Thomas Lin Pedersen

scales 1.1.0

scales 1.1.0 now available on CRAN. It includes a new naming scheme (with breaks_ and labels_ prefixes) and greatly improved documentation

Hadley Wickham

A Summer of RStudio and ggplot2

This past summer, I had the incredible opportunity to spend the summer as an RStudio intern working with Hadley Wickham on a few new features for the ggplot2 package

ragg 0.1.0

A set of new graphic devices just landed on CRAN. Read more about the ragg package here

Thomas Lin Pedersen

ggplot2 3.2.0

ggplot2 3.2.0 is now on CRAN!

Thomas Lin Pedersen

ggplot2 3.1.0

ggplot2 3.1.0 is now on CRAN!

scales 1.0.0

scales 1.0.0 is now on CRAN

ggplot2 3.0.0: community posts

Blog posts from the community using ggplot2 3.0.0

Tidy evaluation in ggplot2

Using tidy evaluation in ggplot2 3.0.0

ggplot2 3.0.0

ggplot2 3.0.0 is on CRAN

ggplot2 2.3.0 — upcoming release

What you need to know about upcoming changes for ggplot2 2.3.0

leaflet 2.0.0

Barret Schloerke

DT 0.4: Editing Tables, Smart Filtering, and More

DT 0.4: editable tables, smart filtering, and shift-click row selection for Shiny apps

About Plotnine

plotnine: a grammar of graphics implementation for Python built on matplotlib and pandas

leaflet 1.1.0

leaflet 1.1.0 adds text labels, shape highlighting, awesome-markers, sf support, custom projections, and viridis palettes

Joe Cheng

svglite 1.2.0

svglite 1.2.0 improves font handling with system_fonts and user_fonts arguments, plus text scaling fixes

Hadley Wickham

ggplot2 2.2.0

ggplot2 2.2.0 adds subtitles and captions, rewrites the facet system, improves theming, and fixes stacking order

Hadley Wickham

A New Version of DT (0.2) on CRAN

DT 0.2 adds the Buttons extension, row/column/cell selection, and functions to modify tables without rebuilding

ggplot 2.0.0

ggplot2 2.0.0: official extension mechanism, new geoms (geom_count, geom_curve, geom_label), appearance tweaks, and facet labels

Hadley Wickham

svglite 1.0.0

svglite produces compact, web-optimized SVG graphics from R, with smaller file sizes and faster rendering than base R’s svg() device

Hadley Wickham

Leaflet: Interactive web maps with R

Create interactive web maps in R with leaflet: markers, polygons, popups, GeoJSON support, and seamless Shiny integration

DT: An R interface to the DataTables library

DT brings DataTables to R: sortable, filterable, paginated HTML tables with column formatting and Shiny integration

d3heatmap: Interactive heat maps

d3heatmap creates interactive heat maps with D3.js: zoom by dragging, highlight rows/columns on click, hover to see values

Joe Cheng

ggplot2 updates

ggplot2 hits 1.0.0—a mature, stable release. Second edition of the ggplot2 book is in progress

Hadley Wickham

ggvis 0.4

ggvis 0.4 adds layer_boxplots(), better error handling, and more reliable interactive graphics with dynamic data

Winston Chang

ggplot2 0.9.3 and plyr 1.8 have been released!

ggplot2 0.9.3 fixes bugs and adds stat warnings; plyr 1.8 brings sequential summarise() and .paropts

Winston Chang

ggplot2 0.9.2 has been released!

ggplot2 0.9.2 overhauls the theming system: opts() becomes theme(), theme_() becomes element_()

Hadley Wickham