Author: Data Imaginist

I am super, super thrilled to finally be able to announce that patchwork has been released on CRAN. Patchwork has, without a doubt, been my most popular unreleased package and...continue reading.

I’m happy to announce that farver 2.0 has landed on CRAN. This is a big release comprising of a rewrite of much of the internals along with a range of...continue reading.

I am beyond excited to finally be able to announce a new version of ggraph. This release, like the ggforce 0.3.0 release, has been many years in the making, laying...continue reading.

When I announced the last release of ggforce I hinted that I would like to transition to a more piecemeal release habit and avoid those monster releases that the last...continue reading.

After what seems like a lifetime (at least to me), a new feature release of ggforce is available on CRAN. ggforce is my general purpose extension package for ggplot2, my...continue reading.

Just to start of the year in a positive way, I’m happy to announce that gganimate is now available on CRAN. This release is the result of a pretty focused...continue reading.

The year is nearly over and it is the time for reflection and navel-gazing. I don’t have incredibly profound things to say, but a lot of things happened in 2018...continue reading.

Once again, I gives me great pleasure to announce a new package has joined CRAN. transformr is the spatial brother of tweenr and as with the tweenr update a few...continue reading.

NOTE: tweenr was released some time ago but a theft of my computer while writing the release post meant that I only just finished writing about it now. I’m very...continue reading.

This is my first blog post about gganimate — a package I’ve been working on since mid-spring this year. I have many thoughts and lots to say about animation and...continue reading.

I’m happy to once again announce the release of a package. This time it happens to be a rather unplanned and quick new package, which is fun for a change....continue reading.

I’m happy to report a new major release of lime has landed on CRAN. lime is an R port of the Python library of the same name by Marco Ribeiro...continue reading.

I got a new package on CRAN! It’s called particles and it sits right in the perfect intersection of fun, cool, and useful. If you don’t believe me, have a...continue reading.

I am very pleased to tell you that the next version of tidygraph (1.1) is now available on CRAN. This is not a bug-fix release, nor a change-it-all release, but...continue reading.

Say what you will about 2017 – it sure made an impact. In the broader view I’m pretty sure all sensible people can agree that that impact was predominantly negative,...continue reading.

There are many ways to utilize fiery: It can be the engine behind a local running web-app, it can serve a dynamic site running on your own server, or it...continue reading.

As I announced last friday on Twitter I have moved Data Imaginist to Blogdown from Jekyll. This is going to be a short post about why I did it. There’s...continue reading.

I’m very pleased to announce that lime has been released on CRAN. lime is an implementation of the model prediction explanation framework described in “Why Should I Trust You?”: Explaining...continue reading.

routr is now available on CRAN, and I couldn’t be happier. It’s release marks the completion of an idea that stretches back longer than my attempts to bring network visualization...continue reading.

Some time ago (last year actually 😳) I had a blast developing a feature for ggforce which had been on my mind for far to long than its limited utility...continue reading.