Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Has anyone ever noticed that EU portraits have visual parallels with medieval art, where the stars in a circle sort of resemble halos? 051 5
Reposted by Teun van den BrandGina Reynolds, Human-Data Interaction 📊🛠 @ginareynolds.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We can't wait to hear about {deeptime} viz with Will Gearty - visualizing spans of billions of years! 🤩⏳ Paleontology fans welcome!! 🤗🦕🦣 143 4
Reposted by Teun van den BrandPierre-Paul Axisa @ppaxisa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026conflicted.r-lib.org #rstats 061 6
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Have you tried: * Sacrificing a goat? * Collecting the tears of a virgin? * Drawing a pentagram? These are my top 3 CI tips 020 2
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think writing your own themes is great. I've written down a few remarks about it here, though it is a bit more mechanical than spice of life stuff! tidyverse.org/blog/2025/10...tidyverse.orgggplot2 stylingThis post discusses one function in ggplot2: `theme()`. Find out about the glamour of graphics in this deep-dive article. 110 1
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think the pattern is that there are also 100s of R packages with custom ggplot2 themes, it is just that they usually have only 1 theme each, that they attach to their plot outputs and are usually similar to vanilla themes. 130 3
Reposted by Teun van den BrandEmil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026quarto revealjs magic move now (fairly) seamlessly animated between generated charts from ggplot2, base R, lattice, matplotlib, seaborn, Altair, and Plots.jl set the device to svg, add the .magic-move class and you are good to go! emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-... #quarto #slidecrafting 0222 22
Reposted by Teun van den BrandThomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 24/09/2026As announced at posit::conf(2026) #ggsql is now, with the release of version 0.5.0, in Beta. I'm so excited for the future of this project. Read all about what the latest version brings you in the release postopensource.posit.coggsql 0.5.0: Readers, Writers, and Beta statusAnnouncing ggsql 0.5.0, with new readers and writers for getting data in and out, and the project's graduation to beta status. 14814 48
Reposted by Teun van den BrandDaniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today we announce the Claude-led creation of a sweet sweet ggplot2 that we suspect could represent a new frontier in dataviz. Its precise function, technological utility (if any), or level of significance is not yet clear, but at minimum it is work I would have been proud to do as a PhD student. 121 2
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Because plotting fills you with such joy and lust for life that the days fly by without noticing the passage of time. Procrastiplotting is how the young kids are calling it. 000 0
Reposted by Teun van den BrandNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A question for the #RStats and #ggplot2 hivemind: What things do you find most tricky or frustrating in ggplot2? It might be things like specific chart types, aspects of styling, your workflow, saving charts etc. 12188 18
Reposted by Teun van den BrandThomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 15/09/2026I’ll be presenting our work on #ggsql today at #PositConf2026 It will be lovely and whimsical and I hope you’ll join both if your are new to ggsql or have been following along since the springggsql.orgggsql 1101 10
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Cheaper to support than the whole `scale_colo(u)r_*()` pantheon of palettes! 😅 030 3
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Also added to development version of ggsql too 🫡 Try it out in interactive examples at ggsql.org/syntax/coord.... ``` VISUALISE continent AS fill FROM ggsql:world DRAW spatial PROJECT TO equal_earth ``` 0234 23
Reposted by Teun van den BrandMichael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026#rstats #dataviz ggbiplot 0.6.5 is now on CRAN 🎉 ggplot2 biplots for PCA/LDA. Variable vectors are now drawn with the ggarrow package @teunbrand.bsky.social — nicer arrowheads out of the box, with varname.gap/vector.args to fine-tune them. friendly.github.io/ggbiplot/friendly.github.ioA Grammar of Graphics Implementation of BiplotsA ggplot2 based implementation of biplots, giving a representation of a dataset in a two dimensional space accounting for the greatest variance, together with variable vectors showing how the data var... 0131 13
Reposted by Teun van den BrandHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 05/09/2026It brings a smile to my face every time I see a paper using ggplot2 😀 2795 79
Reposted by Teun van den BrandGina Reynolds, Human-Data Interaction 📊🛠 @ginareynolds.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Thrilled to be welcoming Kaitlin Henze to the #ggplot2extenders meetup next Tues, at 12 noon ET. Storytelling with Data's work tends to be tool agnostic, but how can/should it inform extension? We're so looking forward to hearing from Kaitlin! 🚀📊🙏 042 4
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I guess I just have to once again learn regex to know what it means now 030 3
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026You basically learn to recognise which SO answers apply to your thing, back in the day of artisinal handcrafted code. Any other interpretation of learning regex, and you're being deceived by a crook. I don't know what learning regex means these days anymore. 120 2
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The way you use regex is you re-learn it everytime you use regex. 360 6
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Folks, hot off the press here are a few plots about what the new ggarrow update can do: teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl... I'll also tease them below #rstats #ggplot2 15211 52
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026ggeasy::easy_rotate_x_labels() for the theme()-reluctant among us 020 2
Reposted by Teun van den BrandJoachim Schork @joachimschork.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The ggh4x package is an extension for ggplot2 that enhances the flexibility of creating complex and customizable visualizations. Visualization: teunbrand.github.io/ggh4x/ More details: statisticsglobe.com/online-cours... #package #tidyverse #datasciencecourse #visualanalytics #rstudio #ggplot2 094 9
Reposted by Teun van den BrandGina Reynolds, Human-Data Interaction 📊🛠 @ginareynolds.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Really looking forward to a conversation with @matthewkling.bsky.social about the new #ggplot2->3D extension, ggcube. 📦🙂 A week from today, Wed 19th, 12 noon ET. 📊 022 2
Reposted by Teun van den BrandMickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · 26/06/2026I'll be presenting Gribouille (Grammar-of-graphics for Typst) next Tuesday (the 30th of June at 5.30pm CEST) at the #ggplot2 extenders meetup. @teunbrand.bsky.social will be also presenting ggsql (Grammar-of-graphics for SQL), so you have two good reasons to join! bit.ly/join-gg-exte... 1113 11
Reposted by Teun van den BrandThomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 23/06/2026Do you love maps? Of course you do! With the latest release of #ggsql we now support spatial plotting directly from your database. As a cherry on top, the release also provides powerful in-layer aggregation. Read all about it on the blogopensource.posit.coggsql 0.4.1: Spatial plotting and in-layer aggregationggsql 0.4.1 adds support for spatial plotting and data aggregation within layers. Read all about the new features in this release post. 08122 81
Reposted by Teun van den BrandGina Reynolds, Human-Data Interaction 📊🛠 @ginareynolds.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It's tomorrow!! 🤩 #ggplot2 #rstats 092 9
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 10/06/2026You can think of it as setting background (paper) and foreground (ink) colours, but with nicer names 🤓 100 1
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 09/06/2026As the one guilty of the changes in Geom___$default_aes, it was all to power the new `theme_*(ink, paper)` settings that propagate en masse to all layers 😇 110 1
Reposted by Teun van den BrandLibby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I made this & immediately doubted all of my ggplot source code knowledge, especially since the source code for Geom____$default_aes changed so much in the last major package release 🥹 Did you know making short-form videos is extremely hard? 😂 #rstats #ggplot2 #databs youtube.com/shorts/beajd...youtube.comDid you know Hadley Wickham hates theme_minimal()?YouTube video by Posit PBC 7516 51
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Thanks! If I read the internet correctly, that is based on this one right? proj.org/en/stable/op...proj.orgAzimuthal Equidistant — PROJ 9.8.1 documentation 100 1
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Hey #rstats spatial people: what map projections / EPSG codes do you use most? Asking for a thing. 962 9
Reposted by Teun van den BrandArtur Carvalho @artur.carva.lu · 20/05/2026Hey @thomasp85.com @teunbrand.bsky.social, I created a chart builder built on top of #ggsql: plotr.org. Sort of the ggsql Esquisse version :) Would love to hear what you think! It's still very much experimental though.plotr.orgplotr — A ggsql chart builder 1103 10
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I'd argue that the left isn't really a traditional rainbow. It is a blue-red divergent palette with a weirdly saturated and darkish green in the middle. If you'd replace the green with something like white, it'd feel much more natural. 000 0
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Well I was thinking of reviving github.com/teunbrand/gg... back from the dead at some pointgithub.comGitHub - teunbrand/ggchromatic: Colour and fill scales for 'ggplot2' using colour spaces.Colour and fill scales for 'ggplot2' using colour spaces. - teunbrand/ggchromatic 130 3
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I'm please to celebrate that legendry 0.3.0 has hit the streets on CRAN 🎉 Legendry is a ggplot2 extension that lets you draw more guides. Read about all the guide goodness in this minor update here: teunbrand.github.io/teunbrand_bl... #rstats #ggplot2teunbrand.github.ioSymbolic update – Blog | Teun van den BrandThe latest and greatest in guide fashion. 25714 57
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Just as I struggled to get a nice radar plot going 040 4
Reposted by Teun van den Brandtj nightmahr 🧟♂️ @tjmahr.com · 04/05/2026quick problem-solving note about loops and ggplot2 www.tjmahr.com/notes/2026-0...tjmahr.comggplot2 loops and delayed evaluation in aes()This note solves a problem faced by Josiah Parry (relevant gist and Bluesky post) Generating a series of plots with ggplot2 and a for-loop can lead to unexpected results, as in the following example: 0173 17
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 04/05/2026In the first layer you're subsetting columns, in the second you're subsetting rows. Is that how you want to use it? 020 2
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Lovely stuff. For a dependency-free symmetric scale, one can also use a function: `scale_y_continuous(limits = ~c(-1, 1) * max(abs(x)))` 0101 10
Reposted by Teun van den BrandNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 29/04/2026📊 Five #ggplot2 functions I wish I'd known about earlier 📊 I've written a short blog (with examples) of some of the lesser-known {ggplot2} functions and arguments that make it easier to create better charts! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/five-gg... #RStats #DataViznrennie.rbind.ioFive ggplot2 functions I wish I’d known about earlier – Nicola RennieThere are a few small tweaks you can make to your ggplot2 code to improve your charts. However, they’re not often mentioned. So here’s a few functions and arguments I wish I’d known about earlier. 616549 165
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 25/04/2026I'm not sure if the override behaviour was a conscious decision but I'm glad you like it! 😅 010 1
Reposted by Teun van den BrandAnsgar Wolsing @ansgarw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The Grammar of Graphics for SQL – and it’s for real! 😅 #ggsql brings the Grammar of Graphics to SQL - developed by the team behind ggplot2 at Posit. No need to switch to another tool to create nice charts once you have queried your database. #30DayChartChallenge | Day 22 - New tool #dataviz 📊 14912 49
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Also if the information is available, a crude indication of the type of animal could be displayed as t he point shape. I'd suggest Other, Arthropod, Fish, Mammal and maybe Bird as categories. 010 1
Teun van den Brand @teunbrand.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I like the plots. I'd argue the text is too small if this is for a presentation slide or printed figure. It would be nice to have a reference line for the average trend to grok how much a particular animal deviates from that trend. 110 1