NEWS

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ggplotplus 0.5.6

Main features

• geom_point_plus(), a fill+color point geom with a more distinguishable custom shape palette, plus the ability to add custom shapes via add_shape_plus().
• geom_jitter_plus(), a jittered wrapper around geom_point_plus().
• theme_plus() for Universal Design-inspired ggplot2 defaults.
• gridlines_plus() and yaxis_title_plus() helpers for thoughtful gridlines on continuous scales only and horizontally oriented y-axis titles, respectively.
• scale_continuous_plus() for forcing labels near the endpoints of continuous scales.
• direct_labels_plus() for directly labeling point and line geometries as an alternative to a legend.
• scale_focus_plus() for using color to create a "focus mode" version of a graph to visually emphasize some groups and de-emphasize others.

Latest features

• direct_labels_plus() added as an experimental/trial feature.
• scale_focus_plus() added as an experimental/trial feature.
• Coaching messages for plots with too many requested discrete colour, fill, or shape values for easy distinguishability.
• Coaching messages when scale titles appear to use raw column names instead of something potentially more human-readable.
• Added a session-level option, ggplotplus.enable_coaching, to disable coaching messages globally.
• Helper functions supporting use of ggplotplus graphs with cowplot and patchwork. See ggplotplus_to_*.