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Fonts in R

Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity

Thomas Lin Pedersen

May 12, 2025

tidyverse systemfonts ragg svglite Best Practices Textshaping Graphics Tidyverse Deep-Dive

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webR 0.2.0 has been released

webR 0.2.0 has been released. Updates and improvements to the webR REPL app, HTML canvas graphics device, internationalisation, Wasm R packages, Shiny support, and the developer API

George Stagg

Aug 16, 2023

Best Practices Webr Webassembly Wasm Tidyverse Deep-Dive

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webR 0.1.0 has been released

webR 0.1.0 has been released! Using the magic of WebAssembly, webR allows you to run R code directly within a web browser

George Stagg

Mar 9, 2023

Best Practices Webr Webassembly Wasm Tidyverse Deep-Dive

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Make your ggplot2 extension package understand the new linewidth aesthetic

Make your ggplot2 extension package understand the new linewidth aesthetic

The next release of ggplot2 will contain a number of internal improvements and fixes long-time inconsistencies. One of these are the conflation of point size and linewidth into the same aesthetic. This post will go into detail with how you can make your extension package work well with the new linewidth aesthetic

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Aug 24, 2022

tidyverse ggplot2 Best Practices Tidyverse Deep-Dive

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Using case weights with tidymodels

Support for case weights is now available across many tidymodels packages

Max Kuhn

May 5, 2022

tidyverse tidymodels parsnip Best Practices Tidyverse Deep-Dive

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ragg, svglite, and the new graphics features

ragg, svglite, and the new graphics features

The graphics engine in R is continually improving, and the ragg and svglite graphic devices follow along in supporting them. This blog post outlines what is now possible, and what might come in the future

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Feb 25, 2022

tidyverse ragg svglite ggplot2 Best Practices Graphics Tidyverse Deep-Dive

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Survival Analysis in tidymodels

We are working on extending support for survival analysis in tidymodels. We are looking for early adopters to try out the new package called censored and give feedback

Hannah Frick

Nov 2, 2021

tidyverse tidymodels parsnip Best Practices Tidyverse Deep-Dive

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Modern Text Features in R

ragg has taken a major leap forward in text-rendering capabilities with the latest releases of systemfonts, textshaping, and ragg itself. This post will go into detail with what is now possible and how it compares to the build in devices

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Feb 6, 2021

tidyverse ragg systemfonts Best Practices Graphic-Device Tidyverse Deep-Dive

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Multi Process Task Queue in 100 Lines of R Code

Multi Process Task Queue in 100 Lines of R Code

We use callr::r_session to implement a worker pool and task queue in 100 lines of R code

Gábor Csárdi

Sep 9, 2019

tidyverse callr Best Practices Rlib Tidyverse Programming Deep-Dive