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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

Deep-Dive Systemfonts Textshaping Ragg Svglite Graphics

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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

May 7, 2025

Package Svglite Graphic-Device Graphics

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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

Jan 17, 2025

Roundup Systemfonts Textshaping Marquee Graphics

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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

Nov 7, 2022

Package Ggplot2 Graphics

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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

Deep-Dive Ragg Svglite Ggplot2 Graphics

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Taking Control of Plot Scaling

Learn how to control scaling of the content in your plot when you render plots to different sizes

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Aug 21, 2020

Learn Graphics Ragg