Graphics
Thomas Lin Pedersen
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 Read more ...
2025/05/12
Thomas Lin Pedersen
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. Read more ...
2025/05/07
Thomas Lin Pedersen
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. Read more ...
2025/01/17
Thomas Lin Pedersen
ggplot2 3.4.0 is now on CRAN. Read all about the (mostly internal) changes that make up this release. Read more ...
2022/11/07
Thomas Lin Pedersen
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. Read more ...
2022/02/25
Thomas Lin Pedersen
Learn how to control scaling of the content in your plot when you render plots to different sizes. Read more ...
2020/08/21