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
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
webR 0.1.0 has been released! Using the magic of WebAssembly, webR allows you to run R code directly within a web browser
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
Support for case weights is now available across many tidymodels packages
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
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
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
We use `callr::r_session` to implement a worker pool and task queue in 100 lines of R code