[Rd] CRAN and ggplot2 geom and stat extensions

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Frank Harrell
> <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>> I am thinking about adding several geom and stat extensions to ggplot2
>> in the Hmisc package.  To do this requires using non-exported ggplot2
>> functions as discussed in
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18108406/creating-a-custom-stat-object-in-ggplot2
>>
>> If I use the needed ggplot2::: notation the package will no longer pass
>> CRAN checks.  Does anyone know of a solution?
>
> the ggthemes package is on CRAN and uses ggplot2::: so it is at least
> possible that this will be allowed for Hmisc as well.
>

Packages ggmap, ggtern and ggsubplot also define their own geom's and/or stat's.