ggplot2 马上要出新版本了，最明显的变化是速度变快了，之前一直有一种抽风的感觉，现在几乎实时了，这一点让人很振奋[s:13]
ggplot2开发页面在github上，可以如此这般安装黎明前的测试版本(前提是要安装Rtools)：
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install.packages("devtools")<br />
library(devtools)<br />
dev_mode() # to avoid clobbering existing install</p>
<p>install_github("scales")<br />
install_github("ggplot2")<br />
</p>
变化：
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ggplot2 0.9.0
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NEW FEATURES
* geom_map: a new special case of geom_polygon useful when you are drawing
maps, particularly choropleth maps. It is matched with annotation_map, an
even faster special case when you want the same map drawn in each panel.
* geom_raster is a special case of geom_tile for equally sized rectangular
tiles. It uses the raster functionality of R graphics devices for massively
increased speed and much decreased file sizes. It is matched with
annotation_raster, an even faster special case, for when you want to draw
the same raster in each panel.
* geom_violin: an implementation violin plots, which are a way of
visualizing kernel density estimates. (Thanks to Winston Chang)
* New fortify methods have been added for objects produced by the multcomp
package.
* stat_summary2d and stat_summary_hex. These are work like stat_bin2d
and stat_binhex but allow any summarisation function (instead of just
count). They are 2d analogs of stat_summary
DEVELOPMENT
* ggplot2 has moved away from the two (!!) homegrown documentation systems
that it previously relied on, and now uses roxygen extensively. The current
downside is that this means that ggplot2 website can no longer be updated,
but I hope work with the helpr package will resolve that shortly.
* ggplot2 now uses a NAMESPACE, and only exports functions that should be
user visible - this should make it play considerably more nicely with other
packages in the R ecosystem. Note that this means you now need to explicitly
load plyr (and other packages) if you are using them elsewhere in your
code.
* ggplot2 now has a start on a set of automated tests. As this test suite
expands it will help me ensure that bugs stay fixed, and that old bugs don't
come back in new versions. A test suite also gives me more confidence when
I'm modifying code, which should help with general code quality.
DOCUMENTATION
* Thorough clean up and checking, including documenting all arguments, adding
systematic cross-references, and adding commonly requested examples. Thanks
to Jake Russ for the help.
* Complete series of aesthetics pages (grouped subsets of aesthetics) with
examples of how to use the major ones, see e.g. ?fill, ?shape
* Added a complete list of theme opts with usage examples. ?opts now brings
this list up.
* Added "translate" pages to demonstrate usage between qplot-ggplot,
qplot-base, qplot-lattice, and qplot-gpl.
SCALES
* Scales have been rewritten to use the new scales package, which does a
much better job at defining what a scale is and making it easier for you to
create your own scales. Scales should now behave much more consistently, and
it should be easier for me to add new features in the future.
* breaks parameter can now be a function, which will be passed the scale
limits and expected to return a character vector of breaks
* labels parameter can now be a function - this replaces the previous
formatter function that only some scales possessed, and the major argument
to the data time scales. This function should take a vector of breaks as
input, and return a character vector or list of expressions as output. See
comma_format, dollar_format, percent_format, scientific_format,
parse_format and math_format for examples
* Transformations are now provided by the scales package - see ?trans_new
for list of available transformations, and how to create your own. The
transformations in this package should do a better job at computing default
breaks.
* Transformations for continuous scales are now detected automatically when
the default scales are added. This ensures that dates and date times will
display correctly when used for any aesthetic - previously they only worked
with position scales. The system is now also easier to extend to new types
of continuous data that you might want to plot. (Fixes #48)
* All scales now accept a na.value parameter which provides an aesthetic
value to be used for NA values in the data. Colour/fill scales default to
grey, which should stand out as different from non-missing values.
* The new oob (out of bounds) parameter controls how scales deals with
values outside the limits. The default action is censor - see clip for
another option.
* Only scale_x_log10, scale_x_sqrt and scale_x_reverse provided as
convenience functions for x and y scales. Use e.g. `scale_x_continuous(trans
= "log")` to access others
* set_default_scale has been removed. If you want to change the default
scale for an aesthetic, just create a function called
scale_aesthetic_continuous or scale_aesthetic_discrete that returns the
scale that you want. For example:
p <- qplot(mpg, wt, data = mtcars, colour = factor(cyl))
p
scale_colour_discrete <- scale_colour_brewer
p
* Scales now automatically shrink to what is actually displayed on the plot,
not the underlying data used for statistical transformation. If you want the
old behaviour, supply shrink = FALSE to the facetting specification.
(Fixes #125)
* scale_colour_gradient and scale_fill_gradient now use a colour scheme
with constant hue but varying chroma and luminance. This is better because
it creates a natural ordering inline with the order of the colour values.
FACETS
* Converted from proto to S3 objects, and class methods (somewhat) documented
in facet.r. This should make it easier to develop new types of facetting
specifications.
* The new facet_null specification is applied in the default case of no
faceting. This special case is implemented more efficiently and results in
substantial performance improvements for non-facetted plots.
* Facetting variables will no longer interfere with aesthetic mappings -
facet_wrap(~ colour) will no longer affect the colour of points.
COORDS
* Converted from proto to S3 objects, and class methods (somewhat) documented
in coord.r. This should make it easier to develop new types of coordinate
systems.
RENDERING
* When printing a ggplot2 object, the rendered plot information is returned
invisibly. You can capture this with (e.g.) `x <- print(qplot(mpg, wt, data
= mtcars))` and in the future will be able to use it to get information
about the plot computations, such as the range of all the scales, and the
exact data that is plotted.
* Drawing a plot takes place in three documented steps: ggplot_build which
creates a list of data frames ready for rendering builds, ggplot_gtable
which creates a gtable of grobs, and grid.draw which renders the grobs
on screen. Each of these returns a data structure which should be useful for
understanding and modifying the rendered plot. This is still a work in
progress, so please ask questions if anything is confusing.
* The drop and keep parameters to ggsave and print.ggplot have been
dropped, as the data structure returned by ggplot_gtable is sufficiently
rich enough to remove the need for them.
* Axis labels are now centred underneath the panels (not the whole plot), and
stick close to the panels regardless of the aspect ratio.
GUIDES
* Guides (particularly legends) have been rewritten by Kohske Takahashi to provide considerably more layout flexibility.
* guide_legend now supports multi-row/column legend and reversed order,
gives more flexible positioning of title and label, and can override
aesthetics settings. This is useful, for example, when alpha value in a
panel is very low but you want to show vivid legend.
* guide_colorbar is a guide specially for continuous colour scales as
produced by colour and fill scales.
MINOR CHANGES
* geom_text now supports fontfamily, fontface, and lineheight
aesthetics for finer control over text display. (Thanks to Kohske Takahashi
for the patch. Fixes #60)
* collide, which powers position_dodge and position_stack, now does not
error on single x values (Thanks to Brian Diggs for a fix. #157)
* ... in ggplot now passed on to fortify method when used with an object
other than a data frame
* geom_boxplot: outlier colour and shape now default to values set by the
aesthetic mapping (thanks to suggestion by Ben Bolker), the width of the
median line is now fatten times the width of the other lines (thanks to
suggestion by Di Cook), and the line type can now be set. Notched box
plots are now supported by setting notch = TRUE (thanks to Winston Chang
for the patch).
* ggsave can work with cm and mm units (Thanks to patch from Jean-Olivier
Irisson)
* scale_shape finally returns an error when you try and use it with a
continuous variable
* stat_contour no longer errors if all breaks outside z range (fixes #195).
* geom_text remove rows with missing values with warning (fixes #191)
* New generic function autoplot for the creation of complete plots
specific to a given data structure. Default implementation throws
an error. It is designed to have implementations provided by other
packages.
* ggpcp loses the scale argument because it relied on reshape(1) code
* map_data passes ... on to maps::map (Fixes #223)
* coord_fixed accepts xlim and ylim parameters to zoom in on x and y
scales (Fixes #91)
* ggplot2 will occasionally display a useful hint or tip on startup. Use
suppressPackageStartupMessages to eliminate
* stat_binhex uses correct bin width for computing y axis bounds. (Fixes
#299, thanks to Dave Henderson for bug report and fix.)
* stat_smooth now adjusts confidence intervals from \code{loess} using a
t-based approximation
* stat_bin and geom_histogram now use right-open, left-closed intervals by
default. Use right = TRUE to return to previous behaviour.
ggplot2 0.8.9 (2010-12-24) ---------------------------------------------------
A big thanks to Koshke Takahashi, who supplied the majority of improvements in this release!
GUIDE IMPROVEMENTS
* key size: can specify width and height separately
* axis: can partially handle text rotation (issue #149)
* legend: now can specify the direction of element by opts(legend.direction =
"vertical") or opts(legend.direction = "horizontal"), and legend box is
center aligned if horizontal
* legend: now can override the alignment of legend box by
opts(legend.box = "vertical") or opts(legend.box = "horizontal")
* legend: now can override legend title alignment with opts(legend.title.align
= 0) or opts(legend.title.align = 1)
* legend: can override legend text alignment with opts(legend.text.align = 0)
or opts(legend.text.align = 1)
BUG FIXES
* theme_*: can specify font-family for all text elements other than geom_text
* facet_grid: fixed hirozontal spacing when nrow of horizontal strip >= 2
* facet_grid: now can manually specify the relative size of each row and column
* is.zero: now correctly works
* +: adding NULL to a plot returns the plot (idempotent under addition)
(thanks to suggestion by Matthew O'Meara)
* +: meaningful error message if + doesn't know how to deal with an object
type
* coord_cartesian and coord_flip: now can wisely zoom when wise = TRUE
* coord_polar: fix point division bugs
* facet_grid: now labels in facet_grid are correctly aligned when the number
of factors is more then one (fixes #87 and #65)
* geom_hex: now correctly applies alpha to fill colour not outline colour
(thanks to bug report from Ian Fellows)
* geom_polygon: specifying linetype now works (thanks to fix from Kohske
Takahashi)
* hcl: can now set c and l, and preserves names (thanks to suggestion by
Richard Cotton)
* mean_se: a new summary function to work with stat_summary that calculates
mean and one standard error on either side (thanks to contribution from
Kohske Takahashi)
* pos_stack: now works with NAs in x
* scale_alpha: setting limits to a range inside the data now works (thanks to
report by Dr Proteome)
* scale_colour_continuous: works correctly with single continuous value (fixes
#73)
* scale_identity: now show legends (fix #119)
* stat_function: now works without y values
* stat_smooth: draw line if only 2 unique x values, not three as previously *
guides: fixed #126
* stat_smooth: once again works if n > 1000 and SE = F (thanks to bug report
from Theiry Onkelinx and fix from Kohske Takahashi)
* stat_smooth: works with locfit (fix #129)
* theme_text handles alignment better when angle = 90
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