[R-pkgs] New version of ggplot2, 0.8.1

[hadley wickham]

ggplot2 ------------------------------------------------------------

ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics,
which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and
avoid bad parts. It takes care of many of the fiddly details
that make plotting a hassle (like drawing legends) as well as
providing a powerful model of graphics that makes it easy to produce
complex multi-layered graphics.

Find out more at http://had.co.nz/ggplot2, and check out the nearly 500
examples of ggplot in use.  If you're interested, you can also sign up to
the ggplot2 mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/ggplot2, or track
development at  http://github.com/hadley/ggplot2

ggplot2 0.8.1  (2008-12-12)
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New features

* new labs, xlab & ylab functions for easily modifying axis labels and
legend titles
* qplot now guesses what geom you want based on the position
aesthetics that you provide:
  * both x & y: scatterplot
  * only x: histogram
  * only y: scatterplot of seq_along(y) vs y
* scale_datetime: a first attempt at a scale for date time objects of
class POSIXt

Aesthetic improvements

* legends should now work in cases where you have multiple layers the
use the same geom and have different aesthetic mappings
* theme: new theme setting legend.key.size determines size of keys in legend
* theme: new theme setting plot.margins to control the plot margins
* tweaks to plot and legend layout

Other minor improvements

* geom_point warns if missing values present in data and not displayed on plot
* geom_smooth gives a more accurate warning when you have incorrectly
specified the grouping
* geom_smooth will switch to an alternative smoothing method
(mgcv::gam(y ~ s(x, bs = "cr"))), when there are more than 1000
observations
* layers gain a legend argument, which allow you to force the layer
either into (TRUE) or out of (FALSE) the legend

Bug fixes

* coord_equal now calculates scales correctly again
* coord_flip: flips axes labels again too
* coord_trans fix bug where transformation incorrect
* facet_grid: fix bug where tick labels where being produced outside
the range of the axes
* facet_wrap: fixed bug with ncol = 1 or nrow = 1
* facet_wrap: labels correctly clipped to axis ranges
* facet_wrap: labels will match panels even when factor levels are not
in alphabetical order
* facet_wrap: now works when a layer doesn't contain every level of
the faceting variables
* geom_abline should now work in a wider variety of situations
* geom_smooth now gives correct asymmetric standard errors with
generalised linear models (thanks to Thierry Onkelinx)
* geom_vline and geom_hline now correctly transform their intercepts
if the scale is transformed
* geom_vline and geom_hline: now use xintercept and yintercept instead
of intercept
* legend.position and legend.justification work again
* position_dodge now works for any number of elements with smaller
widths, not just 2!
* scale_discrete_position: does a better job of calculating axis
limits when plotting a mixture of continuous and discrete values (e.g.
with geom_jitter)
* summary: tweaks to improve output


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