NEWS.md

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tidyplots 0.2.2

This is a patch release mainly focusing on preparing tidyplots for the upcoming release of ggplot2 3.6.0.

Breaking changes

• Hard deprecation of as_tidyplot(). Converting a ggplot to a tidyplot probably never was a good idea.

Improvements

• Support ordered factors provided to color (#75)
• Prepare tidyplots for upcoming ggplot2 3.6.0 release (#60)
• Switch from the magrittr pipe %>% to the base R pipe |> in both the documentation and code (#55, #56)
• More meaningful error for invalid plotmath expressions.
• Update documentation (@mthulin, #62)

tidyplots 0.2.1

Breaking changes

• The energy dataset has been updated to contain the correct energy values in TWh. The variable power has been renamed to energy. This change will affect all code that uses the energy dataset.

Bug fixes

• The limits parameter of adjust_x_axis() and adjust_y_axis() had no effect when combined with add_count_*() (#41).

Improvements

• New color scheme colors_discrete_rainbow (@electrolars, #35).
• save_plot() gains view_plot argument to control whether to view the plot on screen after saving (#40).
• New add_annotation_text(), add_annotation_rectangle(), add_annotation_segment() for including annotation at specific coordinates (#38).

tidyplots 0.2.0

Bug fixes

• The standard deviation (SD) in add_sd_errorbar() and add_sd_ribbon() is now shown as one time SD, not 2 times SD as before. Thanks to @awata25 for spotting this (#25).

Improvements

• Improved documentation (#6).
• The default dodge_width is now determined by a heuristic (#13).
• Tidyplots now requires ggplot2 (>= 3.5.0) (#16).
• The minimal themes theme_minimal_*() now have axis ticks.
• New color scheme colors_discrete_alger suggested by @loukesio (#18).
• New function adjust_theme_details() (#23)
• New arguments fontsize, family, face, and color in adjust_title(), adjust_caption(), adjust_x_axis_title(), adjust_y_axis_title(), and adjust_legend_title() for more detailed control over fonts (#24).

tidyplots 0.1.2

• Initial CRAN release
• New S3 class tidycolor for color schemes. The print method of tidycolor sends a html preview of the color scheme to the RStudio viewer panel.
• New new_color_scheme() to create custom color schemes.
• New build-in color schemes using the prefix colors_discrete_, colors_continuous_ and colors_diverging_.
• adjust_colors() now also works with too few or too many provided colors.
• New function factory behind adjust_x_axis() and adjust_y_axis()
• Updated README and documentation.

tidyplots 0.0.2

• The package is still in early development. Expect user-facing and breaking changes.
• Renaming functions to improve consistency.

tidyplots 0.0.1

• The package is still in early development. Expect user-facing and breaking changes.
• Initial release.

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